Bert wrote
By bundling fonts, sure. But trying to convince Linux package maintainers that this is a necessity ... that's going to be hard.
[..snip...]
We don't need to, true, but in their current form the plugins cannot
render
fonts embedded in the image.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Igor Stasenko siguctua@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder, why we should care bundling TT fonts with squeak?
It seems that it should be possible to separate identification and loading of fonts (could be platform-dependent) from the rendering of fonts (ideally not platform-dependent).
It would be nice instead of worrying about how Microsoft does it or Apple does it to instead use a platform-independent hardware abstraction like OpenGL. I know this won't work on some platforms but it will work on most, and GLES is looking to be well-supported on future low-power devices. This might also be an elegant way to improve the somewhat uncomfortable relationship between OpenGL worlds and the rest of the Squeak environment.