John and everyone else, Thanks for your help here! I used John's idea and grabbed the FT2Plugin from the SophieReader archive and my fonts look great now! Bitstream Vera Sans is much more pleasant than Accuny! :) If anyone else is trying to do the same, the reader archive has FT2Plugin inside Sophie Reader.app/Contents/Linux686/FT2Plugin I copied this to /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.10-4 I compiled SqueakVM myself. If you're using the Ubuntu packaged Squeak, this would go in /usr/lib/squeak/3.9-8 Thanks all, Robert John M McIntosh wrote:

There is a FT2Plugin plugin buried in

http://opensophie.org/

On 4-Mar-09, at 10:46 PM, Robert Roland wrote:

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Hi all,

I feel dumb asking this question, but I've been using the Pharo image mostly on a Mac, with the FT2Plugin installed, so I've gotten spoiled by having nice fonts in the image.

I've started wanting to use my Linux desktop (Ubuntu 8.10) too, but there doesn't appear to be a Linux FT2Plugin, so I seem to be stuck with one font only - Accuny. I haven't seen any other posts in this list related to that, so I'm assuming everyone's on a different platform, found a way to fix this, or likes Accuny.

Having been spoiled by staring at Lucida Grande and Monaco, my eyes aren't too happy with Accuny as my only option.

I've only recently begun using the Squeak VM, but compared to the older Squeak images, the Pharo image is worlds ahead. I'm looking forward to participating more, but this font issue is going to nag me. :)

Thanks for any help,

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John M McIntosh writes:

There is a FT2Plugin plugin buried in

http://opensophie.org/

On 4-Mar-09, at 10:46 PM, Robert Roland wrote:

Another way to get the FreeType plugin and also the sub-pixel extensions for bltblit is to use the VM I announced above: http://ftp.squeak.org/Exupery/vms/exupery-vm-0.15-linux.tz Just untar that somewhere convinient then run the VM inside it. Bryce

Mariano Martinez Peck writes:

What is the exupery vm ? and which are the differences to to standard squeak vm ?

A standard VM with the extensions required to run Exupery, a JIT written in Smalltalk. You're not going to notice the Exupery extensions unless you also load the compiler into the image and start it running. Bryce