pcf/bdf fonts are simple bitmapped fonts (not aliased). Aliased fonts need extra resources, it's possible to use them (as prerendered images) but in my opinion they are not worth to use with limited resources like we have in uC. Here goes some snapshots from my ui with fixed fonts (snapshot taken fr...

I use images of buttons (with all state's images like normal/clicked) from Android library widgets with Andoid-like UI (I don't know why Microchip and others force us to use graphic's libs which generate old-fashioned UI style like we know from win 3.11 or WinCE). Buttons based on images looks nice,...

Yes, kind of.

OK, maybe I overused "generating" word, in my apps fonts are not "generated" but just displayed from font image table in the same way like you can display picture with 16 bit depth. Each char (font) is a small 8x8 (or other size) picture with 16 bit depth and each char image has a black background c...

There is no problem for generating anti-aliased font with own font driver (fontsnapshot's on internal flash or sd). LCD limitation has nothing to do with that.

Try run code from RAM. With your clock settins (80MHz) flash controller adds extra wait states.

I use mikrommb pic32 with Linux & gcc & pckit 2, it works great.

mikroMMB for PIC32:
reading and displaying 320x240 image from the internal flash: below 0.01 sec,
reading and displaying 320x240 image from the sd card (fat32) ~0.7 sec

What lcd board are you using? For hx8347-d getpixel code is simple.