Big Fonts
Nevin Pratt
nevin at smalltalkpro.com
Thu May 2 16:20:07 UTC 2002
Nevin Pratt wrote:
> I'm just starting to play around with Fonts in Squeak, and I find it
> confusing.
>
> For an application I have, I would like a large (around 72 point)
> portable font. I'm not fussy beyond the fact that it needs to be big.
> Squeak doesn't seem to be able to scale the included fonts.
>
> It looks like Squeak can read in various types of external fonts, but
> I'm not sure what the best approach would be (i.e., which font(s)
> would be portable and free).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nevin
To follow up to my own post :-)
I've looked around the net for some BDF fonts that BDFFontReader could
use. Mind you, it wasn't an exhaustive search, but I came up empty for
any big fonts. I finally settled on a 24 point font that BDFFontReader
already knew about, though.
Anyway, I think this whole font thing can be a real can of worms, and
I'm not sure what the real solution is. But at this point in time, I'm
no longer pursuing it.
Nevin
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