I agree with the kerning issue. It is one of the disadvantages I talked about in my page.
But, an image that already has FreeType (I guess you're talking about it), what's the need for something like what I did? If you really care about kerning and other issues (like in Sophie), the proper solution is modeling the fonts and rendering them. My solution is for more modest needs, like a programmer that wants to avoid extra complexity and is happy with nice looking code.
Cheers, Juan Vuletich
tim Rowledge escribió:
Since we do, in fact, have plugin code to render very high quality anti-aliased fonts within Squeak, why not simply render each char glyph to a Form, derive the appropriate metrics, add the Form to a composite Form for the StrikeFont glyphs and get all the tedious work done for almost free?
One nontrivial problem with simple StrikeFont type solutions is the kerning pair issue. Systems like Cairo put a fair bit of effort into getting that right and it does make a difference to the visual effect.
tim
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