Font problems with 3.6

Vincent Coetzee vincent.coetzee at ebucks.com
Fri Oct 31 04:51:31 UTC 2003


Hi Ned

I have not loaded SqueakMap, I did not even know it existed.

Vincent

On Oct 30, 2003, at 6:56 PM, Ned Konz wrote:

> Vincent Coetzee wrote:
>
>> Hi Ned
>> I am using CocoaSqueak Version 3.6 - 5424. My menu ends up looking 
>> like this
>> The items turn gray when the mouse is over them, and the items are 
>> fuzzy and then they do not turn blue again afterwards. The poor fonts 
>> are such a pity in Squeak since my users are very iffy and keep on 
>> complaining about how bad the fonts look in the app compared with 
>> WinDoze.
>
> I think you shouldn't have loaded the package from SqueakMap (if that 
> is what you did).
>
> The distributed images have TTF support in them and they should 
> directly load .ttf files.
>
> If you are using a stock image (i.e. without the TrueType fonts 
> package loaded from SqueakMap) and the fonts still aren't inverting 
> correctly, there may be some other problem.
>
> I think the description of the TTF package on SqueakMap should be 
> changed to warn people not to load it into 3.6+ images. That package 
> is for 3.4 images.
>
>
>




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