[squeak-dev] [ANN][Squeak-dev Images] August 2008 versions

Damien Cassou damien.cassou at gmail.com
Sun Aug 17 18:29:20 UTC 2008


Hi Adrien,

you can download the version of NiceFonts at:
http://damien.cassou.free.fr/squeak-dev/fonts/AAStrikeFonts.14.cs.
This is a special one, patched by Juan. I think italics are present,
look at comments in methods. If you have a better version than this
one, I would really like to use it.

Bye

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Adrian Lienhard <adi at netstyle.ch> wrote:
> Hi Damien,
>
> Which version of NiceFonts did you install? It seems that italics are
> missing, thats why some text looks really ugly.
>
> I had a detailled look at NiceFonts and experimented with different fonts
> (e.g., I prefer to have a mono spaced font for coding). Juan had been very
> helpful in the process, and eventually the results were pretty good. I'm
> going to look at Andrew's FreeType work next to compare the two solutions.
>
> Adrian
>
> On Aug 4, 2008, at 21:10 , Damien Cassou wrote:
>
>> Hi Igor,
>>
>> thanks for the feedback As one can see in the poll
>> http://www.doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=9y9r6nr2imci8g38, most
>> users wanted to see NiceFonts installed by default. That's what I did,
>> knowing it was imperfect. I asked author of NiceFonts (Juan Vuletich)
>> for help but he doesn't have much time. I can't fix these problems
>> myself.
>>
>> If someone wants to help, changeset is at:
>> http://damien.cassou.free.fr/squeak-dev/fonts/.
>> If you want to vote for the removal of this package, please do.
>>
>> If you have any opinion, it's the right place :-). Thank you very much
>> for your feedback.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Some feedback on Squeak3.10.2-7179.
>>>
>>> - fonts is ugly. The brave attempt of using subpixels is completely
>>> failed (IMO). I able to see the crisp colored pixels instead of smooth
>>> black glyphs. Lowering contrast may help.
>>>
>>> - a thumbnail view (when hovering a mouse over a taskbar button) is
>>> broken - a mess of rendering artifacts.
>>> - labels of items in Tools flap can be barely read.
>>>
>>> I suspect all of these issues having single source - changes in fonts
>>> and font rendering mechanisms.
>>>
>>> P.S. Thank you for maintaining and working on releases of dev images.
>>> Keep it going! :)
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Damien Cassou
>> Peter von der Ahé: «I'm beginning to see why Gilad wished us good
>> luck». (http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/entry/override_snafu)
>>
>
>
>



-- 
Damien Cassou
Peter von der Ahé: «I'm beginning to see why Gilad wished us good
luck». (http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/entry/override_snafu)


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