Interesting. The glyphs in the screenshot with subpixel anti aliasing
do not look very sharp, but maybe this is just because the screenshot
is compressed as a JPG file. I'm going to look at this after I'm back
from holidays in two weeks...
I'm curious whether there are any plans to include the FT2Plugin and
the BitBlt modification in the Windows and Lunix VMs?
Adrian
On Aug 1, 2008, at 16:43 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Andrew Tween <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: August 1, 2008 3:12:47 PM CEDT
To: Stéphane Ducasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: About true type fonts
Hi Stef,
It is unlikely that I will be doing any more work on FreeType, but
I believe the current version is complete enough to be useful.
I have created a Pharo image with everything installed.
You can find it here...
http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/ft_pharo/ft_pharo.zip
Included in that zip is the image + changes files, and any packages
that have been installed.
You will see that there is a sar file , FreeType Plus Squeak Sans
Font Pack.small.sar. This installs a ttf font (SqueakSans) as the
list, code, menu font etc.
I created the SqueakSans font from BitStream Vera Sans. The main
reason for creating this was so that I could change the embedding
flags to allow it to be legally embedded.
(Bitstream Vera fonts have the flag set so that it can't be
embedded, although I doubt anyone would really mind).
Having modified the flags, the Bitstream license states that the
font must no longer be named 'Bitstream' or 'Vera', so I named it
'Squeak Sans'.
The contents of those ttf files are embedded in the image, so it
isn't necessary to distribute the font files with the image -
FreeType loads the font from memory.
If you run the image, and you have all the required plugins
installed, then you should see this...http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/ft_pharo/ft_pharo_both_plugins_installed.JPG
If the FT2Plugin is missing then you will see this ...
http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/ft_pharo/ft_pharo_plugins_missing.JPG
If the FT2Plugin is present, but the modified BitBlt plugin is
missing, then you should see this...http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/ft_pharo/ft_pharo_bitbltPlugin_missing.JPG
(in the last jpg , there is no subpixel anti aliasing, but the
difference may not be noticable unless you magnify the images)
Also in the zip, is a sar file containing the plugins for Windows
and Linux... FreeTypePluginInstaller3.sar
When installed, the sar will attempt to copy the plugins to the
correct location on disk.
The FTPlugin is now included in the Mac VM.
The modified BitBlt plugin (to enable subpixel anti-aliasing) for
the Mac is available here...ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental/BitBltPlugin.v1.0.0b1.FreeTypePlus.bundle.zip
There should be enough info here to enable people to run the image
and play around.
Please feel free to ask questions, and to forward this to the Pharo
mailing list.
Cheers,
Andy
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: About true type fonts
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:20:10 +0200
>
> Hi andy
>
> For pharo we are discussing about fonts and I wanted to know
> the status of the truetype support.
>
> stef
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