[Newbies] anti-aliased fonts.

[Sven Schott]

I went through the install of freetype:

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1225

Didn't have any problems. But I'm on a Mac. I also installed the Project
Zurgle stuff:

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1008
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2286

Mine looks pretty now. :)
You can see a screenshot at:

http://spannermonkey.bingodisk.com/bingo/public/misc/squeak.png

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:16 AM, sergio <sergio at village-buzz.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> hi all..
>>
>> i just decided this week to learn squeak..
>>
>> actually, i am doing the following..
>>
>> learn squeak..
>> learn smalltalk..
>>
>> with the end game to learn seaside..
>>
>> anyway..
>>
>> i was wondering if there was any way to make the fonts look a little nicer
>> in squeak..
>>
>> i know it's kind of a gripe.. but it would be cool if i could get them to
>> look pretty...
>>
>
> Well, with the whole system being open source, there is definitely a way,
> but it probably isn't an easy way.
>
> You can load new fonts using the file list. You can change the fonts used
> using "appearance" -> "system fonts...".
>
> However, as to using nice sub-pixel antialiased fonts on LCD screens, I
> personally haven't managed to get this going (not that I've tried hard). I
> find the default fonts readable enough, so it's never been an issue for me.
>
> Anybody else? Is there a way to get sub-pixel antialiasing working?
>
> Gulik.
>
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