On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have the impression that in case you want to have to run your vm on > system not having the freeType plugin. > Relying less on C code is a nice option (especially when a guy did all > the work). > Often people are telling us that we should not do everything in > Smalltalk but there this is a nice solution > and all in Smalltalk. > what about the performance between them? If I can choose, I will obviously choose to do as much as possible in the smalltalk world. However, this is not always possible. If this Juan fonts were as fast (or better) as TrueTypes and as nice of them, I would choose Juan's work. Another newbie question, with this StrikeFonts, can I choose the font to use? thanks mariano > > Stef > > > >> Concerning the fonts, I wonder what the win is, now that we have > >> FreeType? Not that I don't like Juan's solution (I even proposed it > >> some time ago for Pharo but then others preferred FreeType). When > >> would FreeType not work and you would fall back to Juan's fonts? > >> > >> Adrian > > > > > > On Aug 5, 2009, at 09:50 , Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > > >> Henrik > >> > >> here is my answer: so I would really like to get enhanced > >> strikefonts in pharo. > >> Now I would like to have the point of view of the font experts. > >> > >> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1037 > >> > >> > >>>> Hi Stef, > >>>> > >>>> Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >>>>> Hi juan > >>>>> > >>>>> Ideally in Pharo I would really like to be able to have really > >>>>> nice fonts without relying > >>>>> on external plugin. Now I do not know too much about fonts. > >>>>> Do you know that we could have the best of both worlds: > >>>>> - your idea > >>>>> - freetype. > >>>>> > >>>>> Stef > >>>> > >>>> Yes, I don't see any reason for not doing so. Load the attached. > >>>> First 'preliminaries', then the big one. > >>>> > >>>> Enjoy! > >>>> > >>>> Cheers, > >>>> Juan Vuletich > >> > >> > >> <EnhancedStrikeFontsForPharo.zip> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Aug 4, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >> > >>> From: Juan Vuletich <juan <at> jvuletich.org> > >>> Subject: [Ann] Enhanced StrikeFonts (antiAliasing , subPixel AA) > >>> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general > >>> Date: 2009-08-03 21:52:47 GMT (20 hours and 12 minutes ago) > >>> Hi Folks, > >>> > >>> If you update to the latest trunk, you'll load Graphics-jmv.53, > >>> Morphic-jmv.138 and System-jmv.118. This is the support for anti > >>> aliased > >>> StrikeFonts from Cuis. The new 'BitmapDejaVu' font of point size 9 > >>> is > >>> set as default. I only included size 9 (reg, italic, bold, bold > >>> italic) > >>> to avoid using too much space in the image. If people want, more > >>> sizes > >>> can be added. > >>> > >>> To do proper antialiasing / subpixel AA _without_ requiring new > >>> BitBlt > >>> modes, I use RGBMul BitBlt rule, and a second pass with RGBAdd rule. > >>> Text looks very good, in any combination of font and background > >>> colors, > >>> even at lower Display depths and / or glyphs depths. > >>> > >>> By default underscore and caret are shown as in standard ASCII. If > >>> you > >>> prefer the classic ST-80 left and up arrow, evaluate 'StrikeFont > >>> useLeftArrow'. To go back to the default, evaluate 'StrikeFont > >>> useUnderscore'. I also added 2 preferences #subPixelRenderFonts and > >>> #subPixelRenderColorFonts (both default to true). > >>> > >>> Andreas, thanks for all your help! > >>> > >>> Comments are welcome. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Juan Vuletich > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Pharo-project mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Pharo-project mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pharo-project mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >
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