Re: re: TrueType font support and 3.6

Andreas Raab wrote:

>Completely agree. 
>
>BTW, Tim, does *installing* or *using* the TT fonts slow your system down?
>If the latter I would claim that that's almost normal - the TT fonts require
>more expensive rendering and while a lot of this can (given time) be tweaked
>some of it just can't be changed.
>

Right.  Assuming it's using (not just installing) the TT fonts that 
slows things down on slower systems, we could incorporate the TT fonts 
changes, but not actually change any of the default fonts to be TT fonts 
for now.  (Maybe change a default font to be a TT font sometime in 3.7 
if it's working really well.)

We could change a bit of text in the Welcome window to the ComicSansMS 
antialiased font for demonstration purposes, with a hint about how to 
change your default font and how to load new TT fonts with the 
FileList.  (Hmm, I just tried "set font..." on some text in the middle 
of the Welcome window and it appears that TT fonts are a bit buggy when 
mixed with the regular strike fonts.  It's fine if I add some TT text at 
the end, though.  Or we could add a small standalone demo window.  Or 
just not have a demo. ;-) )

Anyway, I'd want to at least double-check with Yoshiki first to see if 
he has any impending changes coming up before incorporating the TT 
stuff.  (I'm cc-ing him on this message.)

- Doug


>>-----Original Message-----
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>>On Behalf Of Craig Latta
>>Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 9:31 PM
>>To: Tim Rowledge
>>Cc: Discussing the Squeak Foundation
>>Subject: [Squeakfoundation]re: TrueType font support and 3.6
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>>>[TrueTypeTextStyle] works ok, looks beautiful but seems to slow down
>>>my system quite a bit. We need profiling and improvements to make it
>>>suitable for default usage - something I think very important.
>>>      
>>>
>>	It doesn't slow mine down, and it's not rediculously 
>>faster than yours
>>(mine's 500 MHz, yours is 200?)  If profiling reveals this to be
>>something that only affects, e.g., old RiscOS machines, I'd prefer to
>>release it and fix the problem later. This is very important. I would
>>even be happy if we just released it without profiling, since 
>>it's fine
>>on all the Unix, win32, and MacOS machines I've tried it on.
>>
>>
>>-C
>>
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