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MaW:
I suspect that would require a major change to the font renderer to allow it to do alpha compositing, not to mention adding a decoder for the chosen image format to the Rockbox core. Big changes (although a PNG decoder would be nice for album art too).
Although having little familiarity with the Rockbox code I have no idea how hard it would be to add an alpha-channel-capable blitter. Or, actually, how good pre-antialised fonts with an alpha channel would look. iPods have great font rendering on the OF, but I don't know if they're rendering from bitmaps or if they actually have an OpenType (or subset thereof) renderer.
karashata:
If it's safe to hazard a guess, I'd guess the iPods are either using a TrueType font renderer (or comparable) or use a custom font set and its own renderer.
On a similar note, I own an iriver Clix2 and it uses TTF and OTF fonts and allows a user to set a font for the UI out of any loaded onto it.
terrence1019:
karashata, you made so excellent fonts! ;D
karashata:
Bah! They might be half decent fonts for small screened DAPs, but I'm sure someone could do better, and could make more than just 10 and 12 pixel high fonts for DAPs with larger, higher resolution screens. There are very many fonts out there on the web and the conversion tools available somewhere on the wiki are pretty decent, anyone with lots of time on their hands and willing to spend some of it finding fonts they want to have could probably do much more than I've done.
terrence1019:
--- Quote from: karashata on February 02, 2008, 01:36:05 AM ---Bah! They might be half decent fonts for small screened DAPs, but I'm sure someone could do better, and could make more than just 10 and 12 pixel high fonts for DAPs with larger, higher resolution screens. There are very many fonts out there on the web and the conversion tools available somewhere on the wiki are pretty decent, anyone with lots of time on their hands and willing to spend some of it finding fonts they want to have could probably do much more than I've done.
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oh, karashata, you're so modest :P
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