Installing a Font Rasterizer DLL

The Font Store automatically loads rasterizer DLLs from \sys\bin\ on all drives at startup. The search path is soft to hard ( Y:, X:, W:, ..., C:, B:, A:, Z:) and if two or more files have the same name the first one found is used. This means that files in the ROM (Z:) can be replaced with files on user drives.

Rasterizers are identified by their signatures: the second UID is KUidOpenFontRasterizerValue and they have the extension .DLL.

To install a font rasterizer DLL:

• Copy it into \sys\bin\ on any drive.

• Restart the device to restart the Font and Bitmap server.

  Note: there is no way to load a rasterizer without a restart. All rasterizers must be present on the device when the Font and Bitmap Server starts up.