The Weekly Juan #10: "Cheap, High Quality Fonts in Squeak"
Juan Vuletich
juan at jvuletich.org
Tue May 1 21:58:17 UTC 2007
Well, the zip file is for 3.9 and most likely it is ok for 3.10. I
didn't think about a package in SqueakMap if that's what you mean.
Anyway, as everybody seemed to like this a lot, perhaps the Release Team
includes it in 3.10.
Cheers,
Juan Vuletich
stephane ducasse escribió:
> 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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