<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Folks, On 8/16/2022 9:21 AM, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:78d3097d-0f9c-a5a8-77d5-f26fbd51a925@free.fr" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> Hi Ken, I will need to address the font issue for DrGeo. In Pharo version I was using two fonts: UnDotum ttf file (for Korean) and the font wqy-microhei in ttc format (for other languages). The later seems to be an aggregate format for several fonts. Supported by FreeType Pharo plugin but not by Cuis. I just learn that when I tried to use it with Cuis. </blockquote> After just a quick check, it looks like TTC files are not too complicated. We'd work on TTC support. Additionally, we need to work on automatic font substitution. <blockquote cite="mid:78d3097d-0f9c-a5a8-77d5-f26fbd51a925@free.fr" type="cite"> Then at load time, depending on the host locale I was using one font or the other one to have a better language coverage. It is a bit waste as most OS come with fonts files... May be I will have to generalize this approach with more fonts, better with host fonts, but I a bit complicate. </blockquote> The challenge here is to take advantage of host fonts without compromising portability. If there are well known platform specific folders to look for fonts, we could do it. Still, we need to be careful so stuff won't break when moving to another platform that doesn't include the fonts... Each time a regular pdf app gives me an error like "There are missing fonts, this content may look bad", I get mad. <blockquote cite="mid:78d3097d-0f9c-a5a8-77d5-f26fbd51a925@free.fr" type="cite"> The Unifont your are referring seems to be pure bitmap, not nice looking but still useful indeed. I have looked at it in the past. </blockquote> I agree that better Unicode coverage is something we want. But I also agree with Hilaire here. This font can be useful to those who know what they want. But in the official Cuis distribution, I prefer to only include stuff that looks great. I don't want newcomers to say "well, after all this talk on high quality vector graphics, all I see is very pixelated stuff" and walk away in disappointment. <blockquote cite="mid:78d3097d-0f9c-a5a8-77d5-f26fbd51a925@free.fr" type="cite"> Hilaire [1] <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/anthonyfok/fonts-wqy-microhei">https://github.com/anthonyfok/fonts-wqy-microhei</a> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 15/08/2022 à 16:04, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev a écrit : </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:2fbf9ef21af6a8f57feaa435b746a899@whidbey.com"> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-size: 16px;" lang="x-western">I was looking at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/EnhancedText/blob/master/Unicode/utf8sampler.txt" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/EnhancedText/blob/master/Unicode/utf8sampler.txt</a> (attached) but did not find a font in Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/TrueTypeFonts which displayed all the characters. All display fine in my web browser. There is an open source GNU Unifont which has excellent coverage. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-14.0.04/font-builds/unifont-14.0.04.ttf" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-14.0.04/font-builds/unifont-14.0.04.ttf</a> This is also useful as a backup font when a character is lacking in a selected font. Details at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html</a> I think this would be a useful addition to Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/TrueTypeFonts/ $0.02, -KenD </div> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- GNU Dr. Geo <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://drgeo.eu">http://drgeo.eu</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.drgeo.eu">http://blog.drgeo.eu</a></pre> </blockquote> Cheers, <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Juan Vuletich cuis.st github.com/jvuletich researchgate.net/profile/Juan-Vuletich independent.academia.edu/JuanVuletich patents.justia.com/inventor/juan-manuel-vuletich linkedin.com/in/juan-vuletich-75611b3 twitter.com/JuanVuletich</pre> </body> </html>