On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Gary Chambers <gazzaguru2@btinternet.com> wrote:

Would be nice to expose the technique used in FreeType for
underline/strikeout... even if only stub where rendered by a StrikeFont.

Would help a lot for other canvas types (PDF, PostScript etc.)... For
instance, a P{DF canvas would draw the underline using graphics
primitives...

Regards, Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcus Denker" <denker@acm.org>
To: <Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Dev09.12.1 does not look nice on Linux

>
> On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Hernan Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> but why the previous verson of pharo worked fine? there must be
>> something different in this new image...
>>
>
> It uses pre-rendered sub-pixel fonts instead of rendering the fonts via
> FreeType.
> (Much faster, not quite as nice in details).
> Freetype fonts are available if needed, though. The pre-rendered fonts
> just replace
> the 80ties=looking Squeak fonts and provide a good enough selection for a
> development image.
>
> Marcus
>
>
>> 2009/12/8 laurent laffont <laurent.laffont@gmail.com>:
>>> Hi,
>>> I had the same issue with exupery vm. Works with VM �Squeak-3.11.3.2135.
>>> See: http://n2.nabble.com/New-pharo-images-td4125021.html#a4125467
>>> Laurent
>>>
>>> 2009/12/8 Hernan Wilkinson <hernan.wilkinson@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> �the last version's fonts look really bad. See attached files
>>>> �I have Ubuntu 9.10, 64 bits.
>>>> �Dev09.11.4 looks fine
>>>> �Maybe is a preference setting?
>>>> Hernan
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