Is an external dependency like http://www.freetype.org/ completely out of
the question?

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

>
> On 25.04.2009, at 18:22, John M McIntosh wrote:
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>> On 25-Apr-09, at 2:02 AM, Michael Rueger wrote:
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>>  - fractional position rendering (rendering an anti-aliased glyph onto
>>> a fractional pixel position)
>>>
>>
> You both are seriously overestimating the sophistication of Squeak's
> standard text rendering ;)
>
> It all derives from bitmap fonts, each glyph basically is a Form, and they
> are simply blitted one after the other onto the screen. No sub-pixel
> positioning, no kerning. The only thing that's different for TrueType fonts
> is how the forms are generated.
>
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