[Cuis-dev] Support for TrueType fonts in Cuis

[Juan Vuletich]

On 5/11/2019 5:41 AM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Wow, that's great Juan! Thanks a lot for all the time you invest on this!
> Now I might be able to get even nicer glyphs for math drawing them 
> myself inside Cuis :D
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 3:44 PM Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev 
> <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st <mailto:cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Folks,
>
>     Yes, this is the big surprise I promised yesterday!
>
>     Now the VectorGraphics engine can rasterize TrueType glyphs. As you
>     might now, the VectorGraphics (a.k.a. Morphic 3) engine is still in
>     unoptimized Smalltalk, and too slow to draw the Morphic world in real
>     time. But it can be used to rasterize TrueType glyphs that can be
>     cached
>     as Forms.
>
>     Just pullAllRepos.sh (pulling just Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev is not enough).
>     Then start Cuis and install updates. Do World / Preferences / Load
>     extra
>     fonts. Then World / Preferences / Set font..., or play with World /
>     Open... / Text Editor.
>
>     I'm pretty sure that Cuis is now the only dev environment with high
>     quality TrueType fonts without needing any support from the host
>     platform. Yep, we are not calling FreeTypo or any other library.
>     All the
>     code is there for us to learn, play and experiment!
>
>     Enjoy!
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     -- 
>     Juan Vuletich
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Thank you all for the nice comments. This opens up many possibilities!

Cheers,

-- 
Juan Vuletich
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