On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Marcus Denker wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:38:45PM -0500, David N. Smith (IBM) wrote:
> > 
> > I think the lack of anything like modern font support in Squeak is a major 
> > deficiency, but there seems to be no way to use TrueType directly due to 
> > patent problems.
> > 
> There's a Patent FAQ at http://www.freetype.org/patents.html
> 
>  Is FreeType 2 affected by the patents ?
> 
>       The answer is *no* for any recent build of FreeType 2, since it comes
>  with a "auto-hinting" module that was specifically designed to completely
>  ignore the TrueType bytecodes.
> 
> 
There is a Swiki page on this - High-quality font support
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1225

It describes a solution seemingly using this FreeType 2 library. But it's
not updated and is not yet available for all platforms. Any takers?

Cheers

Hannes Hirzel