[Cuis-dev] Adding Single Font / Morphic Update

[Phil B]

Eric,

Here's Juan's full reply...

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 2:15 PM Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> On 1/21/2020 10:22 PM, Eric Gade via Cuis-dev wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > It's been a while since I opened up Cuis, so forgive me if I'm out of
> > the loop a bit. I have 2 unrelated questions:
> >
> > 1. How can I add a single font (otf) to the available fonts in the
> system?
>
> Cuis can handle TrueType .ttf fonts, but not OpenType .otf fonts right
> now. Maybe you can find a TrueType version of the font you need, or
> maybe you can convert it. Most likely, extending TrueType support to
> also handle OpenType is not a big deal if you want to give it a try.
>
> > 2. What is the status of Morphic 3 and vector graphics?
>
> With an updated Cuis setup, do:
>
> World / Preferences... / Load extra fonts    "This installs TrueType and
> VectorGraphics"
> World / Preferences... / Set font... / CMU Concrete "or any other but
> DejaVu (that is a Bitmap Font). DejaVu Sans is also ok"
> If you have any FileList open, close it, and open it again if you want
> (FileList is not updating all the panes to use the new default font).
>
> Now all the text you see is done using instances of TrueTypeFont. All
> the glyphs were built using VectorGraphics. If you want to see the whole
> desktop as drawn by the VectorGraphics engine, evaluate:
>
> self runningWorld backgroundImage displayAt: 0 at 0. (VectorCanvas onForm:
> Display) fullDraw: self runningWorld. Display copy inspect.
>
> The high performance OpenCL implementation of the VectorGraphics engine
> is in the works. As I usually say at this time of the year, maybe this
> is the year it will become usable enough to completely replace
> BitBltCanvas and BitBltCanvasEngine... You can see the commits that
> affect VectorGraphics.pck.st in GitHub, and see that I'm actually
> working on it.
>
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> > Eric
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
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