Font problems with 3.6

Vincent Coetzee vincent.coetzee at ebucks.com
Thu Oct 30 16:04:06 UTC 2003


Hi Ned

I am using CocoaSqueak Version 3.6 - 5424. My menu ends up looking like 
this

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The items turn gray when the mouse is over them, and the items are 
fuzzy and then they do not turn blue again afterwards. The poor fonts 
are such a pity in Squeak since my users are very iffy and keep on 
complaining about how bad the fonts look in the app compared with 
WinDoze.

Vince

On Oct 30, 2003, at 5:20 PM, Ned Konz wrote:

> Vincent Coetzee wrote:
>
>> I am an old Smalltalker but a relatively unskilled Squeaker. I am 
>> successfully managing to load TT fonts into Squeak, but when I 
>> attempt to use them they are fuzzy and do not inverse or draw 
>> properly. Is this a bug, a peculiarity of the fonts that I am using 
>> or do I have to do something first to make them work properly ? By 
>> the way I am trying to load arial.ttf, verdana.ttf and virtue.ttf.
>
> The stock TTF support in 3.6/3.7a does not have hinted antialiasing. 
> As a result, the edges tend to be fuzzy (for me, too fuzzy to use as 
> body text below about 16 pt.).
>
> I am looking into incorporating the recent FreeType/2 work, which will 
> allow us to have much better anti-aliasing.
>
> However, the highlighting and drawing should work in the existing 
> fonts.
>
> Can you tell us what version of Squeak you have and how you're seeing 
> inverse and drawing problems?
>
>
>
>


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