Hi Andreas,

    Thanks for the SoundPlugin. It works (almost ) like a charm for
Squeak-D3D and not at all for SqM (I hope it's just another property getter
incident ;-)

    I chose to load 'Times New Roman' and somehow I got extra little
vertical rectangles everywhere this font is used. (Update #4347 -
Squeak-D3D - Win2K-Pro)

    Cheers,

    PhiHo.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Raab" <Andreas.Raab at gmx.de>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 5:55 PM
Subject: [ENH][Win32]RE: Font Support


> Dave,
>
> Thanks for the complaint. Perhaps to get started, attached is something
that
> might be of tremendous help for at least the Win32 people. The changes
(and
> the plugin) allow you to import any font you have on your system into
Squeak
> (and have it there as StrikeFont). All you have to do is to evaluate:
>
> HostFont textStyleFromUser.
>
> choose the font you'd like to import and get it. But be warned: The
imported
> fonts blow up your image... they tend to get large since a variety of font
> sizes is imported. The usual disclaimers apply (blabla, mumble mumble, may
> not work, may not look right, etc. etc. etc.)
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of David
> > N. Smith (IBM)
> > Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 1:02 PM
> > To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > Subject: Font Support
> >
> >
> > All:
> >
> > The single most troubling problem in Squeak is the lack of
> > real font support. I've just finished a large, packaged
> > program and had to make do with NewYork, and images of large
> > characters in a font cut from Illustrator and pasted into
> > Graphic Converter, then twiddled, and then saved as GIFs, in
> > three large sizes, for about 30 characters each, then read
> > into the program and then laid out by code I wrote. (There
> > are other solutions; I disliked this one the least.)
> >
> > With real font support I could address the font directly.
> >
> > I know one issue is portability and that strike fonts move
> > readily between platforms.
> >
> > Maybe there should be some way to:
> >
> > * Query the current platform for fonts with certain
> > characteristics. (Answer all serif, answer all monospace,
> > answer all bold Courier, etc.  X-Windows has a mechanism for
> > doing such searches that might be useful to look at.)
> >
> > * Specify that a certain font is wanted; it then acts like a
> > built-in font.
> >
> > * Squeak then asks the platform to draw the characters.
> >
> > There are issues wrt moving an image to a new platform, but I
> > think they can be handled so long as 'Squeak itself' uses
> > built-in, portable fonts.
> >
> > Maybe I'm all wet here, with a quickly proposed solution that
> > might not work. Regardless, there needs to be SOME solution
> > to the Squeak font problem.
> >
> > The current font support sucks. The TT converter doesn't work
> > on a Mac, it does work on Windoze but only at 32 point and
> > above. It doesn't fix the problem.
> >
> > One cannot claim to have the worlds greatest multimedia
> > content builder, then admit to having only three fonts with
> > fixed sizes.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > Chris, thanks for reminding me that I've been going to complain too.
> >
> >
>