Making Squeak look good on WinXP

Nils Kassube squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Sat Sep 7 21:36:02 UTC 2002


"Andreas Raab" <Andreas.Raab at gmx.de> writes:

> Terrible?! As in "garbled"?! Or as in "too small"?! Terrible is a
> bit non-descriptive here (and feel free to use a German word - es
> gibt genug Deutsche hier ;-)

"Pixelig". Not smooth. No antialiasing. No subpixel rendering.  I
really do like a good font display, so I also prefer XEmacs to GNU
Emacs on Win32.

> They can be found if you click on the desktop, choose "appearance"
> and "system fonts". There's plenty of stuff to play around with.

I've played with the settings but all I can see are a handful 
of bitmap fonts. Is the FreeType/TrueType plugin X11-only? 






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