Bert wrote<br>> By bundling fonts, sure. But trying to convince Linux package maintainers<br>
> that this is a necessity ... that's going to be hard.<br>
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> We don't need to, true, but in their current form the plugins cannot render<br>
> fonts embedded in the image.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Igor Stasenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:siguctua@gmail.com">siguctua@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I wonder, why we should care bundling TT fonts with squeak?</blockquote><div><br>It seems that it should be possible to separate identification and loading of fonts (could be platform-dependent) from the rendering of fonts (ideally not platform-dependent). <br>
<br>It would be nice instead of worrying about how Microsoft does it or Apple does it to instead use a platform-independent hardware abstraction like OpenGL. I know this won't work on some platforms but it will work on most, and GLES is looking to be well-supported on future low-power devices. This might also be an elegant way to improve the somewhat uncomfortable relationship between OpenGL worlds and the rest of the Squeak environment.<br>
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