may be we should write that on the book henrik would like to write some paragraph on fonts for dummies like us.
Stef On May 11, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Henrik Johansen wrote: > On May 10, 2010, at 10:15 02PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > >> OK...I like 1) also, but I would care about: >> >> a) Explain and document somewhere how people can install and make truetype >> to work >> b) Use the VMs that have the fix to issue: >> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1803 >> >> Cheers >> >> Mariano >> >> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10 May 2010, at 19:15, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: >> >> >> On May 10, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: >> >> Hi guys. Last Pharo 1.0 images have the TrueType fonts. Now, in Pharo 1.1 >> Cores we have a StrikeFonts. We have two possibilites: >> >> 1) let those (strike fonts) fonts also for the dev image >> 1) >> >> and people can load TT if they want. >> >> I agree. It also makes distributing images easier. >> >> Cheers, >> Doru >> >> >> >> >> >> 2) Continue to put TrueType in Pharo dev > > > PS. > Please call it FreeType. > Although the Freetype plugin (the interface to, and user of, you call > TrueType) supports using TrueType fonts, it would be nice to be able to > disambiguate it from the TrueType-Fonts/Support packages, which is something > different entirely: > - Parser for TT-files in Smalltak, which is kind of cool. F.ex. I had a hard > time deciphering the values given by the FreeType plugin primitives (at least > without RTF external Manual), TTFontReader made getting understandable values > directly from the font file easy :) > - Glyph renderer using Balloon, which is not that cool as the resulting > graphics are too weak. > > Cheers, > Henry > _______________________________________________ > 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
