If you have true type fonts installed it should be possible to set the
TextMorph to  that font.
The rendering is probably some bitmap warp method though.

Cheers,
Karl






On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 2:59 AM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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> > On 2018-12-31, at 4:39 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
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> > Hi Karl,
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> >     thanks very much.  With your fixes I can indeed get a text to follow
> an arc.
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> Amongst all the 'fun' of fixing bugs in things like ServerDirectory it's
> so easy to forget how mind-crogglingly cool some of the things we can do
> are. Looking at the code of TextOnCurve I'd say that the dependence upon
> using Warpblt would require using bitmap characters, though it *should* be
> practical to use a TTFont to render a suitable font glyph. Not quite what
> you were asking for but maybe close enough?
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> tim
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