Would it be difficult to let the user decide/override which font sizes to import?

Best, Marcel

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On 19.03.2015, at 11:54, Marcel Taeumel marcel.taeumel@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de wrote:

Would it be difficult to let the user decide/override which font sizes to import?

Yeno :D To quote TTCFont class >> #pointSizes

"The default sizes that are created when a TextStyle is created. You can add new sizes by the new-size feature." ^ #(9 12 15 24 36).

So, it is possible to change the point size of a TTCFont internally and TextStyles also support this somewhat, but actually _adding_ a point size takes code; after import/install you could do

((TextStyle named: 'Gill Sans') addNewFontSize: 8)

but there's no UI.

Best, Marcel

Why should I use TextStyle if I want to program with or access fonts? I always use StrikeFont... :-)

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On 19.03.2015, at 13:34, Marcel Taeumel marcel.taeumel@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de wrote:

Hmm... "StrikeFont class>>#familyNamed:pointSize:" could dynamically add the missing size if it is possible instead of falling back to another font. Does this make sense?

I don't understand? TTFonts have nothing to do with StrikeFonts :D

Best, Marcel

On 19.03.2015, at 14:58, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:

On 19.03.2015, at 13:06, Tobias Pape Das.Linux@gmx.de wrote:

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On 19.03.2015, at 11:54, Marcel Taeumel marcel.taeumel@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de wrote:

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Would it be difficult to let the user decide/override which font sizes to import?

Yeno :D To quote TTCFont class >> #pointSizes

"The default sizes that are created when a TextStyle is created. You can add new sizes by the new-size feature." ^ #(9 12 15 24 36).

So, it is possible to change the point size of a TTCFont internally and TextStyles also support this somewhat, but actually _adding_ a point size takes code; after import/install you could do

((TextStyle named: 'Gill Sans') addNewFontSize: 8)

but there's no UI.

There used to be UI. We lost it when the font menu was replaced with the font dialog.

- Bert -

And here a summary of the discussion in this thread so far.

Main issue is 'font sizes'. The FontImporterTool just generates a few text styles with particular font sizes and I do not easily know where these are defined.

Importing vs Installing ------------------------

Import embeds the font data in the image, install creates a "reference" font to the font file on disk

Font sizes -----------

Marcel asked:

Would it be difficult to let the user decide/override which font sizes to import?

Answer of Tobias:

To quote TTCFont class >> #pointSizes

"The default sizes that are created when a TextStyle is created. You can add new sizes by the new-size feature." ^ #(9 12 15 24 36).

So, it is possible to change the point size of a TTCFont internally and TextStyles also support this somewhat, but actually _adding_ a point size takes code; after import/install you could do

((TextStyle named: 'Gill Sans') addNewFontSize: 8)

but there's no UI.

Using TextStyles ----------------

Why should I use TextStyle if I want to program with or access fonts? I always use StrikeFont... :-)

Because that is what the user sees when she hits ctrl-K for the font menu…

I used this TextStyle thingy because it is there and I don't need no additional registry again :D

On 4/10/17, H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel@gmail.com wrote:

Adding a note to this very welcome tool added 2 years ago:

The FontImporterTool (=class name, available through the 'Apps' menu) gives me the result which is attached on Ubuntu 14.04.

Direct fix for Ubuntu

The FontImporterTool

uses

TTFileDescription fontPathsDo: aBlock

to find out where to look for TrueType fonts.

For the case of Ubuntu 14.04 this only works if I replace there

['unix']		->	[ | base |
	"Standard fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/*"
	base := '/usr/share/fonts'.

with

['unix']		->	[ | base |
	"Standard fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/*"
	base := '/usr/share/fonts/truetype'.

How could we fix this in a more general way?

--Hannes

On 3/19/15, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:

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On 19.03.2015, at 14:58, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:

On 19.03.2015, at 13:06, Tobias Pape Das.Linux@gmx.de wrote:

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On 19.03.2015, at 11:54, Marcel Taeumel marcel.taeumel@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de wrote:

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Would it be difficult to let the user decide/override which font sizes to import?

Yeno :D To quote TTCFont class >> #pointSizes

"The default sizes that are created when a TextStyle is created. You can add new sizes by the new-size feature." ^ #(9 12 15 24 36).

So, it is possible to change the point size of a TTCFont internally and TextStyles also support this somewhat, but actually _adding_ a point size takes code; after import/install you could do

((TextStyle named: 'Gill Sans') addNewFontSize: 8)

but there's no UI.

There used to be UI. We lost it when the font menu was replaced with the font dialog.

• Bert -