[squeak-dev] Re: [ANN][Squeak-dev Images] September 2008 versions

Damien Cassou damien.cassou at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 09:43:01 UTC 2008


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Adrian Lienhard <adi at netstyle.ch> wrote:
>
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 10:30 , Damien Cassou wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> since 3.10 based images contained NiceFonts which causes some
>> problems, I released 2 new images without NiceFonts:
>> sq3.10.2-7179dev08.09.2.zip and sq3.10.2-7179web08.09.2.zip (notice
>> the .2 at the end which means it's the second release of September).
>> Moreover, NiceFonts seems to slow down the image.
>>
>> http://damien.cassou.free.fr/squeak-dev.html
>>
>> What do you want me to do for future dev images? Do you want me to
>> include or exclude this buggy NiceFonts?
>
> Answering also with a rhetoric question: who wants something buggy?
>
> I wonder how NiceFonts can slow down the image because its just another
> strike font. It would certainly help if you report this to the author with
> some more details. I think NiceFonts can work, but it has to be done
> properly (e.g., you need to import italics, else the result is not good).

I already reported some problems to Juan. He didn't want to fix one of
them: the problem with the Tools flap displaying unreadable captions.
If you could provide a package which works well, I would certainly
include it.

-- 
Damien Cassou
Peter von der Ahé: «I'm beginning to see why Gilad wished us good
luck». (http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/entry/override_snafu)


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