[Newbies] [Squeak 4.6] Font Importer Tool instructions?

[Tobias Pape]

Hi Hannes,

Sorry for this very late answer.
I put the font importer into the image to make it a bit easier to
deal with TrueType fonts.


On 14.07.2015, at 13:43, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> In the yet to be released Squeak 4.6
> (http://ftp.squeak.org/4.6/Squeak-4.6-All-in-One.zip is a preview)
> there is a note about a
> 
>    Font Importer Tool
> 
> How do I use it?

When you open it, it presents you with a list of fonts

a) relative to your image (/fonts/) and
b) some platform specific ones.

You then can choose to "import"* them into the image
(Ie, their glyph data). It should then be possible to use the fonts
like other vector-based ones in the image, such as BitstreamVeraSans.

> 
> The release notes as well mention
> 
> "Better support for True-Type fonts, including PostScript based
> True-Type fonts."
> 
> What does this cover?

Well, you now can load some more ttc (true type collection) files,
some other unicode-coded truetype files. And the TrueType machinery
chokes less on files that just pretend to be truetype fonts, but
aren't (I'm looking at you, Apple).

> 
> Thank you for the answer in advance

Best regards
	-Tobias


*If you right-click on a font name, it also offers you to 'link' the font.
 This does not load the font data into the image but rather references the font
 file by name. You have to make sure for yourself that font files used that way
 are always available, also when moving the image.