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Pluggable Fonts

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Windows Mobile Not SupportedWindows Embedded CE Supported

8/28/2008

Applies to Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2

Pluggable fonts enable you to take advantage of advanced font rendering and compression technologies in your devices by choosing from a variety of available third–party font engines. Fonts are loaded at runtime, according to an order that is specified in the registry. You can specify which driver will render each set of font files and font faces.

Pluggable fonts support the ability to have multiple font drivers on a system. There are no limits on which font types a specific driver can support. For example, the default TrueType driver supports TrueType and some OpenType fonts, and compressed AC3 fonts. These decompress into TrueType fonts and then render as typical. You might decide to include this font engine in addition to an optimized OpenType font engine. Then, you can use the driver associations to specify which engine should render specific font types, and specify a default engine to use in case a font type is not specifically associated with a driver.

If no drivers load, Windows Embedded CE tries to load the Microsoft TrueType font driver, mgtt_o.dll.

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