The Weekly Juan #10: "Cheap, High Quality Fonts in Squeak"

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Tue May 1 20:36:14 UTC 2007


are you planning to produce a package that can be loaded in 3.9 or 3.10?

Stef

On 1 mai 07, at 21:36, Juan Vuletich wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Dan, I remembered about your technique to OCR Sanskrit text, using  
> histograms of pixel values for rows and columns. Leandro Caniglia  
> told me he learned it at your place on Squeak 10th anniversary.  
> This allowed avoiding the need to mark the bmp files manually. Now,  
> creating nice looking StrikeFonts in Squeak is fast and easy! Your  
> work is always so enlightening!
>
> I updated http://www.jvuletich.org/Squeak/Misc/AAStrikeFonts.zip .  
> I also replaced copyrighted fonts with 6 sizes of Bitstream Vera,  
> free of any legal issues.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Juan Vuletich
>
> Dan Ingalls escribió:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> The Weekly Juan #10 is out at http://www.jvuletich.org/issues/ 
>>> Issue0010.htm .
>>>
>>> I managed to get antialiased subpixel rendered fonts in Squeak  
>>> without modifying any plugin, just with a 13kb change set.
>>>
>>> Hope you like it. Any comment is welcome.
>>>
>>
>> Yay, Juan.  You GO, guy!
>>
>> You might be able to avoid the step of manually marking up your  
>> text-editor rendering by putting each character on a separate  
>> line, followed by , eg, "|" to identify the widths.
>>
>> Really nice hack -- a great example of malleable software (and a  
>> clever mind) at work.
>>
>> Ciao
>> 	- Dan
>>
>>
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>>
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