Technical Notes

Font Differences between Zoomer/Palmconn

The fonts used are the same on both the Zoomer and PalmConnect. The apparent difference is due to the fact that PalmConnect is based on the Zoomer European release rathar than the Zoomer U.S. release. One of the big changes for the European release was to resolve the problem of accented characters overlapping with decenders of characters on the line above. The solution was to, in effect, increase the interline spacing so that this overlap didn't occur. One result of that is that the maximum number of lines on the sketch page was reduced. The other, which was less obvious for some reason, is that the text and ink won't line up exactly the same on Zoomer-U.S. and PalmConnect.

For future versions of our software we will remove the increase in interline spacing so that it will behave the same as the original Zoomer U.S. version. We could create a version of PalmConnect that does the same.

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