Hi David,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Mitchell" <david.mitchell at gmail.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: [ANN] FreeType Plus release


> I'm very much enjoying FreeType release! My Squeak has never looked better.
>
> How do I ask it to refresh the font list. I had a number of installed
> fonts in Windows and it was slow to render the menus. Since I don't
> really use hardly any of the fonts I had installed, I removed them from
> Windows. I thought restarting Squeak would do it since FreeType scans
> the fonts on image startup. It didn't work, so I reinstalled from a base
> image. I presume there is a way to force the rebuild of the installed
> font list?

They should be removed on image startup, but there is a bug that prevents this.
I've fixed it in the latest version on squeaksource.

To manually refresh you can evaluate...
    FreeTypeFontProvider current updateFromSystem

Thanks for reporting this problem.
Cheers,
Andy

>
> >>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
> >>
> >>
>
>