Hi Damien,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damien Pollet" <damien.pollet at gmail.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] FreeType Plus release


> On 30/04/07, Andrew Tween <amtween at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Can you give an example of a font that is missing?
> > If you could send the font file to me privately, that would be great.
>
> It looks like it only sees fonts from /Library/Fonts (the machine-wide
> font directory) and not fonts I installed just for me in
> $HOME/Library/Fonts (I know, I know, I'm the only user on this machine
> :D )

Yes. The user fonts folder is excluded. (This will require some FFI calls, or a
plugin function, to get the user fonts location from the OS). If you want to get
access to these fonts, you could edit
FreeTypeFontProvider>>getMacOSXFontFolderPaths so that it includes your user
fonts path, then save, exit, and restart the image.

>
> It seems it doesn't like PS type1 and OpenType fonts. Maybe this is a
> limitation of freetype ? For instance, Audimat, freely available at
> http://www.smeltery.net/ (sorry, crappy site, no direct URL)

The AUdimat otf fonts load ok on Windows.
Did you see John's comment about using the 2.2.2c51 or later FT2Plugin?
I wonder if that will solve the problem.

>
> > It should work ok without the BitBltPlugin. There is a bug somewhere there.
Do
> > you get a debugger at all? I am wondering what the error is that has caused
the
> > TextMorph to stop drawing.
>
> The primitive fails in #copyBitsColor:alpha:gammaTable:ungammaTable:
> <primitive: 'primitiveCopyBits' module: 'BitBltPlugin'>
> Debug log attached.

Thanks. The log shows that it is failing with a zero width sourceForm....
     Receiver's instance variables:
          destForm:  DisplayScreen(1021x745x32)
          sourceForm:  Form(0x1x32)
This is when drawing the strikethrough line. So it should be easy to fix.

>
> > > Also the contents of the menu are not always the same, not in the same
> > > order, or paginated differently (in the appearance > system fonts
> > > menus).
> >
> > They should be in alphabetical order.
> > And when you change a system font it should show you the currently selected
font
> > in blue. So it will 'jump' to the page that contains that font.
> > If you are seeing something different, then a screenshot would be helpful.
>
> OK, it does all this, but it puts the selected font on top of the
> page, so the page jumps appear at different places depending on which
> font is selected.

Yes. It's pretty horrid :)
All the menus really need re-working to provide nice scrolling lists.

Cheers,
Andy