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

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Mon Jun 29 09:12:41 UTC 2009


On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:01:37 +0200, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:

> 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.

Ah, no, as written earlier we just use existing libs/VM/plugins and some  
new Smalltalk code. The picture was taken from a Cuis workspace from  
inside the .image, as Igor wrote, no magic.

Sorry for being a bit vague at the moment ;)

/Klaus

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



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