Font Problems with 3.6

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Sat Nov 1 00:20:52 UTC 2003


On Thursday 30 October 2003 9:53 am, Thomas A Petersen wrote:

> I have found that loading the TTFont package into 3.6 is toxic
> on MS Windows and gives nearly identical results as those
> in Vincent's post.

That is because it is not intended for 3.6. There is already the TTF support 
in 3.6 and later.

> I have also found that the file list menu option is not the
> best way to load in fonts either.

Why is that?

> I use    TTCFont   newTextStyleFromTTFile: 'someFontFile.TTF'
> with generally better results.  Maybe it's the fonts I load or
> something, but they seem to look better when loaded
> this way.

What difference do you see?

> Squeak is seriously cool!

Glad you think so!
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