what is the status of the font rendering

Andrew Tween amtween at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 20 19:54:32 UTC 2007


Hi,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Fuller" <brad at bradfuller.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: what is the status of the font rendering


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> I installed FreeType Plus (0.3) from squeakmap into Linux and it seemed
> to show more fonts.

I haven't formally announced its existence yet; I am still testing and finishing
off some stuff.
But it is working ok on Windows & Linux.

On Macs, it will work if you use a VM that contains the FT2Plugin (e.g.
2.8.15beta6U). You will also need to tell it where to find the system fonts;
that is the stuff that I am working on at the moment. Please ask for details if
you don't want to wait.

>I say "seemed" because a problem that I have is that
> when I select "set font..." from the popup menu (e.g. to change the font
> on some text in a workspace), the list of font list is so long that it
> doesn't show a "more..." at the bottom so I can go to the next menu.

Hey, more fonts is good ;)
You would get the same problem if you installed 99 TTCFonts.
But you are correct, the font menu needs replacing with something better.

> "FontListMenuMorph>>displayFiltered: evt" doesn't seem to work. At least
> it doesn't page up and page down the way you might have intended it to.

I bodged together the paging font picker, and it works ok for me on Linux
(Fedora & openSUSE).
Try clicking on the page up / page down items rather than using the keyboard.
And be patient, it sometimes takes a few seconds to render the next page.

All the font picker menus need improving, but the problem is due to the number
of available fonts, not FreeType per se.

I'll write some more about the package in general when I get time.
Cheers,
Andy




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