Hi John, ----- Original Message ----- From: "John M McIntosh" johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [ANN] FreeType Plus release
Ok, based on this change set I built a BitBltPlugin for Mac Carbon VMs.
Find it via my idisk or FTP.
http://www.smallltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html
in the experimental folder
BitBltPlugin.v1.0.0b1.FreeTypePlus.bundle.zip
Thanks for doing this.
I know it gets loaded, but I don't know if it works since I'm not sure what I'm looking to test for. However I suspect some eager macintosh users will give me feeback before lunch today.
For those who wish to check that it is working ok...
A quick check is to evaluate... FreeTypeSettings current clearBitBltSubPixelAvailable; bitBltSubPixelAvailable .it should answer true.
Another check is to change the FreeType GlyphContrast Preference to 99. If all the glyphs go much darker, then the plugin is applying the contrast setting correctly. (set it back to the default of 50 when you are done)
The last check is to install the FreeType Plus (sub-pixel anti-aliasing) package from SqueakMap. Then use a magnifier morph to magnify some text; the glyphs should have colour fringes around them.
Cheers, Andy