Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> On Monday 21 January 2002 11:44 am, Lex Spoon wrote:
> 
> > This discussion is surreal.  Someone *has* made a plugin for FreeType.
> > It's on the All Projects page, and I've just linked it from the Fonts
> > page.  There are some pretty pictures of Squeak using very nice fonts.
> >
> > 	http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/696
> 
> But the FreeType plugin only handles .TTF files; the FreeType .FON conversion 
> is, um, somewhere else... Do you know that the plugin handles .FON files as 
> well as .TTF files?
> 
> Dan's original question was specifically "how to convert a .FON font to a 
> Squeak font", not "how to get other fonts into Squeak".
> 

Oh, I thought someone said that FON files were true-type.  I see that
they aren't now.  FWIW, FreeType can handle FON files:

	http://freetype.sourceforge.net/intro.html
 

I have no idea whether the FreeType-based  Squeak plugin can handle
them.


-Lex