Morphic Font Editor updated (was: Apple fonts in 3.7?)

Boris Gaertner Boris.Gaertner at gmx.net
Mon Feb 23 16:07:31 UTC 2004


Hello,
With some feedback from you, the Squeak user community, I could
fix some minor bugs from the MorphicFontEditor and add some
improvements. The new Version (for Squeak 3.7) as available
at SqueakMap under the name "MorphicFontEditor".
I got further proposals for improvements, but I will not
be able to implement these very quickly.

Please do not hesitate to drop me a line when you encounter
problems. I hope that the new version is an improvement, but
you know that hope and reality sometimes differ. 

Thanks to those who took the time to write ma about
bugs and possible improvements.

Greetings, Boris

"Doug Way" <dway at mailcan.com> wrote:

> While you're at it, it seems silly to me that Accuny09 and Accuny10
> both have the same "size" (total line height) of 12, even though the
> character heights are different.  (I'm probably not using the right
> terminology here.) 
The point sizes differ. It is not wrong to rasterize point sizes 9 and 10
on a form of height 12, it is only confusing. I feat that I contributed
to that confusion with a font editing tool that ignored the point sizes
and used only the number of pixels in the vertical (height). This
is now fixed. You may wish to install the improved version and to
took at the fonts once again.

 Accuny10 seems to have the correct height, it's the
> same as the old NewYork version.  Would it be hard to change Accuny09
> to have a height/size of 11?  If it is, don't worry about it.
>
> (Adding further to the confusion is the fact that the size naming
> convention changed going from NewYork to Accuny.  In other words the
> old NewYork12 is identical to Accuny10.  I guess this was the right
> thing to do as "point size" is normally based on the distance from the
> lowest descender to the highest ascender, which in this case is 10.)
>
> - Doug
>
>




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