Andrew Tween wrote:
Hi Stef,
I should say that I'm confused so my question may be idiot. Here it is: what's the status of the font rendering effort. Andy if I remember you worked on something and there was some discussion with sophiers.
The freetype / subpixel rendering stuff is on-going. I use it all the time under windows, and it works well.
There are some linux plugins available, but untested. The problem with these plugins is that they were rather "cobbled together". I compiled the freetype library on windows, copied it to linux, and compiled and linked the plugin from a Terminal shell; it works, but I can't remember exactly what I did to get it built :(
I have already shared these plugins with one interested party, and I am hoping they will be able to help with getting makefiles etc. set up on linux for building .
If anyone else wants to do download and experiment with this on Linux, then here are the links...
You can download them from here... http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/ft%20linux%20plugins/
This contains these two files... http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/ft%20linux%20plugins/BitBltPlugin http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/ft%20linux%20plugins/FT2Plugin
I installed FreeType Plus (0.3) from squeakmap into Linux and it seemed to show more fonts. I say "seemed" because a problem that I have is that when I select "set font..." from the popup menu (e.g. to change the font on some text in a workspace), the list of font list is so long that it doesn't show a "more..." at the bottom so I can go to the next menu. "FontListMenuMorph>>displayFiltered: evt" doesn't seem to work. At least it doesn't page up and page down the way you might have intended it to.