Fonts (was Re: [etoys-dev] Wording in Clouds)

[Andreas Raab]

Hi Bert -

The tracker seems a bit unusual ;-) I have finally found the the "code 
to test for publication" (for others: click on "browse project" and then 
for some reason it is listed under "versions") but then I'm lost because 
I see no way to add a new issue. Help!

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 30.07.2009, at 09:35, Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
>> Okay, here is a first draft (is there an Etoys repository to commit to?).
> 
> We're still defining our processes. For now, upload a changeset to
> 
>     http://tracker.squeakland.org/
> 
> and put it into "code to test for publication". Once it gets a positive 
> peer review, one of the committers puts it into the update stream. 
> Current committers are the members of the "software team", see
> 
>     http://squeakland.org/about/people/
> 
>> Not bad for an evening's work if I may say so myself ;-)
> 
> Will try later, but sounds good :)
> 
> - Bert -
> 
>> TTFileDescription does the same thing that TTFontDescription does but 
>> operates directly on the files. Download Dejavu and then (for example) 
>> execute:
>>
>>  TTFileDescription installTextStyleFrom: 'DejaVuSans.ttf'.
>>
>> or if you like Arial better:
>>
>>  TTFileDescription installTextStyleFrom: 'C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf'.
>>
>> Then choose the font from the font menu (Alt-k). I have been able to 
>> use Latin, Cyrillic and Greek text together just fine, see screenshot. 
>> Unfortunately, I haven't been able to make CJK scripts work; I'm not 
>> sure if these aren't included in the normal fonts I'm using or if 
>> something's broke. Yoshiki, can you check this?
>>
>> To my big surprise TTFileDescription is even relatively fast - it 
>> renders a glyph in roughly a millisecond which makes it a perfectly 
>> reasonable choice to use instead of TTFontDescription. Remaining 
>> issues are the lack of housekeeping (if you move the image or the 
>> font, you are hosed), the issue that DisplayScanner still tries to 
>> render white spaces (tab, cr, etc all show up as boxes) and more testing.
>>
>> If you have some "interesting" TTFs, please try them out. I'm 
>> interesting in finding fonts that don't work and debug them.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  - Andreas
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