On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Robin Gibson wrote:

agree@carltonfields.com wrote:

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Your screenshot with all the fonts is probably worth adding to the screenshots page, too.

I don't disagree with any of these sentiments, I think this is all

great stuff. But as the token lawyer among us, I need to say the seriously unfun thing: Do we have the rights to those fonts? Under the Squeak license, certain Apple-owned fonts were within the scope of the license -- are these they? Are the new strikefonts unauthorized derivative works?

Probably. They are up for demonstration purposes right now, but can easily be replaced by either the Apple owned fonts you mentioned or public domain fonts.

I'll hold off on adding the Swiki links, then.

The screenshot would probably be okay on the Swiki, though, as a demonstration of what you can do with different fonts.

(I'm guessing the fonts were from that Microsoft site? It looked like those were freely distributable for personal use, but not for use as part of a commercial product.)

Anyway, it would be nice to find some more truly free fonts which looked decent as Strikefonts. There are lots of free font sites on the web (e.g. http://www.freesources.com/fonts.shtml), but they tend to be wackier fonts more suited for large type, and they don't usually have hinting.

Probably the best bet would be to find some free fonts which were already bitmaps... seems more likely than finding free fonts with hinting.

(And of course getting TrueType support working would be cool, but that may be further down the road...)

- Doug Way dway@mat.net