Re: [Newbies] How to use Mac OS X system fonts?

Hi, could someone tell me the font that's being used in the page below? I have tried Monaco and it simply screwed up the look-and-feel. For example, some fonts changed whereas others remained the same. The installed font makes things very very difficult to view.

Thanks in advance,

-Conrad

On 7/8/07, Benjamin Schroeder benschroeder@acm.org wrote:

On Jul 8, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Conrad Taylor wrote:

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Hi, I'm on a Mac OS X 10.4.10 and I would like to use "Monaco 14pt" is there an easy way to access my system fonts. At this time, the Squeak environment doesn't contain all my fonts when I go to

World -> appearance -> Standard System Fonts -> default text font...

Hi Conrad,

Until recently, Squeak could use TrueType fonts, but they had to be imported on a font-by-font basis. However, there is a new "FreeType Plus" package that adds your system's fonts to your font menu.

    http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5984

I think the package is only for Squeak 3.9 and above. I have recently used it on Squeak3.9-final-7067, on Mac OS 10.4.10, but I believe it works on Windows and Linux as well.

To get FreeType Plus,

    Choose "open ..." then "SqueakMap Package Loader" from the World menu.

    At this point, the system may prompt you to update the map of available
    packages from the Internet. If it does so, say "yes".

    If there is no prompt about updating, option-click on the list of

packages and choose "update map from the net".

    Scroll down to "FreeType Plus". Option-click on it and choose

"install".

If you are running a recent Mac OS VM, you will already have the right plugins. I am running the Carbon "Squeak 3.8.17beta5U" VM. (The Carbon VM is the one with the gold icon. There is also a VM that is based on the one for Unix, which I think has a blue icon. FreeType may work fine with either VM - I just don't know for sure. :)

After doing the above, you should have the system fonts in your "appearance" menus. Note that there are "page up" and "page down" options at the top of the menu which will let you get to all your fonts!

If you already have browsers/workspaces/whatever open, you may need to open new ones to see the changes.

Hope this helps, Benjamin Schroeder

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