Font Problems with 3.6
Thomas A Petersen
tpeterse at csc.com
Mon Nov 3 14:36:03 UTC 2003
Ned, et. al,
[snip]
>> I use TTCFont newTextStyleFromTTFile: 'someFontFile.TTF'
>> with generally better results. Maybe it's the fonts I load or
>> something, but they seem to look better when loaded
>> this way.
>What difference do you see?
It seems to do a better job of rendering the fonts in smaller sizes like
12, 14, 16.
I still get the occasional gronkey letter on a menu or a workspace, but it
is sooo
much better looking than the fileList version. I haven't looked into where
it is
doing the decoding lately, but I noticed that the TTCFont class calls
methods
that render the font to a larger canvas and then summarize it down to the
desired size. I was working on the same attack, but Andraes and Yoshiki
beat
me to it and did a better job.
<FanMail>
>> Squeak is seriously cool!
>Glad you think so!
Squeak is cool because:
- The environment lets you be expressive with fewer restrictions.
- Working with living objects has serious advantages.
- It is the only environment that has stayed close to the original goal
of the "idea processor"
- The Squeak community is a great place hang out, contribute to, and
learn from.
- The license issues are understood and you don't need activation codes
that cost $6,000 each.
- Squeak is just fun to play with and use.
</FanMail>
Thanks much and I hope this helps,
tap
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