Browser Applications; Loading Additional Fonts On The Mk4000 - Motorola MK4000 MicroKiosk Product Reference Manual

Browser Applications

The Symbol PocketBrowser 2.1 development tool allows Web developers to quickly create robust applications that
can include a wide range of advanced data capture capabilities. The Symbol PocketBrowser 2.1 Developer Help
provides information on using each feature of the browser. Each feature includes a sample, however the sample
does not necessarily show the only way to implement each feature.
PocketBrowser extends the core rendering engine functionality of Microsoft PocketIE or Microsoft IE with Symbol
application programming interfaces (APIs). It provides interfaces to device hardware and features using meta tags
and Microsoft ActiveX
integration with bar code scanners, RFID readers, and other peripherals such as printers and magnetic stripe
readers (MSR) for complete transaction processing.

Loading Additional Fonts on the MK4000

You can program the MK4000 to support additional fonts such as Unicode and double-byte character font.
The MK4000 supports the following system fonts as shipped from the factory. The font files corresponding to these
formats are located in the
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Arial
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Comic Sans MS
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Symbol
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Tahoma
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Times New Roman
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Verdana
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Wingding.
The default system font path for these fonts is \windows.
Use one of the following options to load fonts not supplied with the MK4000:
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Change the system font path where the system looks for fonts. For example, to change default system font
path from
\windows
\application\fonts:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\FontPath]
"FontPath"="\application\fonts"
Adding this registry changes the entire system fonts directory, so fonts supplied with the OS are no longer
available. To use both the provided system fonts and new fonts, copy the system default fonts to the new font
directory.
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Copy new/alternate fonts to the default
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Copy alternate fonts to the
Copying new fonts to the \windows or \windows\fonts preserves existing fonts. However the new fonts consume
system RAM as they are part of the ObjectStore.
®
components designed specifically for Symbol systems. PocketBrowser offers easy
folder with .ttf extension.
\windows
to add the following registry to the system along with new fonts in
\application\fonts
\windows
\windows\fonts
directory.
directory.
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