Is an external dependency like <a href="http://www.freetype.org/">http://www.freetype.org/</a> completely out of the question?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 25.04.2009, at 18:22, John M McIntosh wrote:<br>
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On 25-Apr-09, at 2:02 AM, Michael Rueger wrote:<br>
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- fractional position rendering (rendering an anti-aliased glyph onto<br>
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You both are seriously overestimating the sophistication of Squeak's standard text rendering ;)<br>
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It all derives from bitmap fonts, each glyph basically is a Form, and they are simply blitted one after the other onto the screen. No sub-pixel positioning, no kerning. The only thing that's different for TrueType fonts is how the forms are generated.<font color="#888888"><br>
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