Andrew did you look at sophie? because I had the impression that they  
build a lot for font location....

Stef

> Hi,
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Fuller" <brad at bradfuller.com>
> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:07 PM
> Subject: Re: what is the status of the font rendering
>
>
> <snip>
>
>> I installed FreeType Plus (0.3) from squeakmap into Linux and it  
>> seemed
>> to show more fonts.
>
> I haven't formally announced its existence yet; I am still testing  
> and finishing
> off some stuff.
> But it is working ok on Windows & Linux.
>
> On Macs, it will work if you use a VM that contains the FT2Plugin  
> (e.g.
> 2.8.15beta6U). You will also need to tell it where to find the  
> system fonts;
> that is the stuff that I am working on at the moment. Please ask  
> for details if
> you don't want to wait.
>
>> I say "seemed" because a problem that I have is that
>> when I select "set font..." from the popup menu (e.g. to change  
>> the font
>> on some text in a workspace), the list of font list is so long  
>> that it
>> doesn't show a "more..." at the bottom so I can go to the next menu.
>
> Hey, more fonts is good ;)
> You would get the same problem if you installed 99 TTCFonts.
> But you are correct, the font menu needs replacing with something  
> better.
>
>> "FontListMenuMorph>>displayFiltered: evt" doesn't seem to work. At  
>> least
>> it doesn't page up and page down the way you might have intended  
>> it to.
>
> I bodged together the paging font picker, and it works ok for me on  
> Linux
> (Fedora & openSUSE).
> Try clicking on the page up / page down items rather than using the  
> keyboard.
> And be patient, it sometimes takes a few seconds to render the next  
> page.
>
> All the font picker menus need improving, but the problem is due to  
> the number
> of available fonts, not FreeType per se.
>
> I'll write some more about the package in general when I get time.
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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