I tried it myself and I am able to run an image without Free type

$ curl get.pharo.org/70+vm | bash

$ ./pharo-ui Pharo.image

(disable Free type in image)

$ mv pharo-vm/Pharo.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/libFT2Plugin.dylib /tmp

$ mv pharo-vm/Pharo.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/libfreetype.* /tmp

$ ./pharo-ui Pharo.image

The look is not 100% perfect, but seems quite usable.

And Pharo 7 is actually quite usable: I developed in it the whole day, no issues.

On 7 Nov 2017, at 20:53, Pavel Krivanek <pavel.krivanek@gmail.com> wrote:

this Pharo 7 build contains bitmap versions of Source Pro fonts so it is possible to use Pharo without FreeType fonts and do not have significant change in look.

See comparison of StrikeFonts (left) and FreeType:


<bitmap-freetype.png>

-- Pavel

2017-11-07 17:48 GMT+01:00 <ci-pharo-ci-jenkins2@inria.fr>:
There is a new Pharo build available!

The status of the build #267 was: SUCCESS.

The Pull Request #441 was integrated: "20648-Provide-Bitmap-variant-of-Source-Code-fonts"
Pull request url: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/441

Issue Url: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20648
Build Url: https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-ci-jenkins2/job/Test%20pending%20pull%20request%20and%20branch%20Pipeline/job/development/267/