At 17:19 +0100 2/4/02, Kris Gybels wrote:
>Hi all,
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>Just a question on fonts in Squeak. I am trying to make a presentation about Smalltalk to introduce it to students. Rather than making a powerpoint presentation or whatever I was thinking on using a BookMorph since that would allow me to easily show what code does during the presentation. Unfortunately Squeak's default fonts are rather small for using them in a presentation that is to be projected on the wall.
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>How can I get fonts bigger than the default set?
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>I tried installing new fonts using the truetype font converter:
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>TTFontReader installTTF: aPathAndFileNameOfaTTFfile asTextStyle: #FontName sizes: #(12 14 16 18 20 24)
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>but the resulting font looked quite horrible. (the letters are there alright but they seem to be composed of alternating black and white pixels and I can't change the color of the text, wrong bith depth perhaps?).
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>Anyone have any idea on fixing that?
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>Greets,
>K. Gybels

It's a feature, not a bug. :-)

I think the lack of anything like modern font support in Squeak is a major deficiency, but there seems to be no way to use TrueType directly due to patent problems.

I think that the splotchy results you get are a Mac/Squeak feature, at least that's what I get. On Windows, you should see something more realistic, but only for fonts 30 points and above.

Sad, isn't it?

Dave
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