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madmaxmedia · 01-23-2004, 03:06 PM

The only real advantage Plucker has for me is the nice anti-aliased font support in the newest version. ISilo has decent font support now, but not nearly as pretty. On the surface this is not important, but with document readers you are looking at the letters all day. Nice-looking fonts just improve the overall user experience.

Now that there are some font utilities for OS 5 and a great font coverter program (palmfontconv), hopefully 1 of the utilities will support anti-aliased fonts. I would then use a nice font systemwide, so obviously iSilo would then look good too.

I am also "married" to iSilo as I have a large library of documents, so changing is not so practical for me.

Thanks for the review!

01-23-2004, 03:06 PM	#25
madmaxmedia Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 510 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA Device: Sony CLIE TG50	The only real advantage Plucker has for me is the nice anti-aliased font support in the newest version. ISilo has decent font support now, but not nearly as pretty. On the surface this is not important, but with document readers you are looking at the letters all day. Nice-looking fonts just improve the overall user experience. Now that there are some font utilities for OS 5 and a great font coverter program (palmfontconv), hopefully 1 of the utilities will support anti-aliased fonts. I would then use a nice font systemwide, so obviously iSilo would then look good too. I am also "married" to iSilo as I have a large library of documents, so changing is not so practical for me. Thanks for the review!