Sheesh..  Total, utter, maximum Gorgeousity.  Thank you Andy, thank
you.  This really lurches the look of my image forward a big step.

I spent the whole day looking at my fonts.  I never thought it would
happen, but I found something I like (a lot) better than Verdana for
the code font.  It's called "Tw Cen MT (OpenType)" which I guess is
"Twentieth Century".

The Century fonts for other stuff are really gorgeous too.

I got a new computer a couple of months of go with a high-res screen,
so I'm enjoying "big" (>= 14-point) fonts with "no hinting".  It's
high contrast and no jaggies at all.

Thanks again!
  Chris


On 4/28/07, Andrew Tween <amtween at hotmail.com> wrote:
> This is an official announcement that the FreeType Plus packages are now
> released.
>
> You can download from SqueakMap, or via the Package Universe within a developer
> Squeak (squeak-dev) image.
>
> I will be documenting various aspects of this on the wiki; at present you can
> view some screenshots, and read some preliminary descriptions, at
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5984
>
> It will work, to varying degrees, on Windows (98, 2000, XP, & Vista); Linux
> (OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.); and Mac OS X.
>
> It requires an FT2Plugin, which is shipped with the Mac VM, and is available for
> Windows/Linux via the FreeType Plus (plugins installer) package.
>
> To enable sub-pixel anti-aliasing, the optional, and separate, FreeType Plus
> (sub-pixel anti-aliasing) package must be installed.
> This requires a modified BitBltPlugin. This is currently available for
> Windows/Linux only, and is installed via the FreeType Plus (plugins installer)
> package. If anybody wishes to attempt compile it for Macs, then please let me
> know.
>
> Rather than try to describe everything, and anticipate every question in
> advance, I would rather wait to see how people get on with installing/using it,
> and then update and improve the documentation accordingly. So, if you have
> problems, then please let me know; and if you have success then that would be
> nice to hear about too :)
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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