[squeak-dev] Re: Sq font rendering [was: The future of Squeak & Pharo ... etc]

K. K. Subramaniam subbukk at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 09:01:37 UTC 2009


On Monday 29 Jun 2009 10:54:29 am Igor Stasenko wrote:
> 2009/6/29 K. K. Subramaniam <subbukk at gmail.com>:
> > On Monday 29 Jun 2009 1:20:50 am Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
> >> working on: three parts 1) fonts/glyphs without new plugins/VM support;
> >> 2) glyphs "char" map visualization (for end user support); 3) glyph
> >> composition (for complicated scripts which need more than one glyph per
> >> "character" location).
> >
> > That is a laudable set of goals. The third part is especially interesting
> > for stroke-based characters in Indic/Arabic scripts. I can help with
> > Kannada (U0C80) and Tamil (U0B80) fonts. How was the picture produced?
>
> Simple: bring up the morph's halo (workspace) , then click red halo
> button - menu,
> and then export -> PNG file.
I meant how were glyphs rendered in Squeak? currently 3) is supported only 
through rendering engine plugins. I thought Klaus had dvipng [1] equivalent 
working natively in Squeak.

[1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng

Subbu



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