but I don't know if we will do this ever or if it is possible at all.
What do you mean not possible? That Bloc will have ugly jagged font
without kerning?
I mean whole Firefox (Gecko) is rendered on Cairo, so surely the issue
can't be in Cairo. So maybe we just need to implement/wrap/bridge
So apparently Firefox uses Pango on top of Cairo to render fonts. Is that
something we can apply?
Because the results from pangocairo looks much better than what is
currently in Bloc.
Or maybe I should be looking into Athens-based solution?
What is Athens thens? I thought that it's vector canvas,
2015-07-28 20:51 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnák i.uh...@gmail.com:
So apparently Firefox uses Pango on top of Cairo to render fonts. Is that
something we can apply?
Because the results from pangocairo looks much better than what is
currently in Bloc.
Can you show an example.
with some info about:
2015-07-05 17:33 GMT+02:00 Nicolai Hess nicolaih...@web.de:
2015-07-05 12:16 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnák i.uh...@gmail.com:
Hi,
when reloading FreeType (Settings Use free type:)
This is an Athens issues. Athens only officially supports vector fonts.
Drawing with bitmap fonts is a hack (and
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Hello,
Thanks for experimenting Bloc!!!.
I think that, In this case, this is the font chooser that freezes, not Bloc.
You can always come back to Morphic with CMD+Backspace.
Then remove the freeze block space, create a new bloc space and switch to it.
I guess it is because
Hi,
when reloading FreeType (Settings Use free type:)
and then trying to change the font (Standard Fonts default)
some inputs are not drawn and the UI freezes completely.
Interestingly if I press alt+dot the UI doesn't respond, but the Image
clearly does because there is output in the
thanks for looking at it.
Bloc needs feedback
Le 5/7/15 12:16, Peter Uhnák a écrit :
Hi,
when reloading FreeType (Settings Use free type:)
and then trying to change the font (Standard Fonts default)
some inputs are not drawn and the UI freezes completely.
Interestingly if I press
2015-07-05 12:16 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnák i.uh...@gmail.com:
Hi,
when reloading FreeType (Settings Use free type:)
This is an Athens issues. Athens only officially supports vector fonts.
Drawing with bitmap fonts is a hack (and that happens during disable/enable
freetype).
fixed in athens
