Pharo uses Freetype, see a mail from Mariano Martinez Peck, 20th Nov last year
<marianopeck at gmail.com>

world menu -> system -> settings -> type "fonts" and hit enter ->
check on "Use Free type..." (wait that it loads fonts).
and that's all. Then if you go and select a font, you should see all of them

I think it is not a big effort to download a Pharo image and check out
what they have been doing in this area.


Assuming Tim breaks the FreeType plugin, is it still possible to
display Host System True Type fonts?

--Hannes



On 9/4/13, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure what the deal here is. It's native OS fonts, I think, and also
> something that hasn't come up to my recollection since Juan gave us a
> much-nicer-than-we-had (anti-aliased) font from Cuis.
>
> I'd like to see us depend less on host facilities now that we have the Cogs,
> so I'm biased, but I'd say: go ahead and break it if no one is raising an
> objection.
>
> Is this related to the Scratch work, out of curiosity?
>
> On Sep 3, 2013, at 6:21 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 02-09-2013, at 12:45 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Who, if anyone, is maintaining the FreeType package? Who, if anyone, is
>>> using it? It has some rather old methods that nastily over-ride more
>>> recent methods in the trunk image. That implies it is moribund to me.
>>
>> Well it certainly sounds like nobody cares about FreeType. I guess that
>> means nobody will mind as I rewrite some of the low-level font/scanner
>> code and almost certainly break FreeType.
>>
>>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> Useful random insult:- Not much to show for four billion years of
>> evolution.
>>
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