[Cuis] Fixed-Width Font

[Dan Norton]

(In line...)

On 4 Aug 2015 at 17:08, Juan Vuletich wrote:

> On 8/4/2015 4:42 PM, Dan Norton wrote:
> > On 4 Aug 2015 at 16:09, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> >
> >> On 8/4/2015 3:35 PM, Dan Norton wrote:
> >>> On 3 Aug 2015 at 22:52, Dan Norton wrote:
> >>> ...
> >>>> If a font name is not in the system, the image crashes. Only
> a
> >>>> reboot recovers.
> >>>>
> >>>> It is not possible to create a new file in the AAFonts
> directory.
> >> It
> >>>> is possible in the current
> >>>> directory however.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm going to restore my system to before Visual Studio et al.
> >> There
> >>>> is too much wierdness.
> >>>>
> >>> Hi Juan,
> >>>
> >>> After the restore and after extracting again the two zip files
> >> from your dropbox there remain
> >>> fundamental problems. In FreeTypeFont>>export the following
> >> statement results in nothing
> >>> written to AAFonts directory:
> >>>
> >>> n := 'AAFonts', FileDirectory slash, face familyName, '-',
> emph
> >> asString , '-', pointSize
> >>> printString.
> >>>
> >>> If changed to spell out the complete path as follows, some of
> the
> >> .bmp and .txt files are
> >>> written to AAFonts before other problems arise:
> >>>
> >>> n :=  '\cuis\pharo\Squeak4.10.2-2612\AAFonts\', face
> familyName,
> >> '-', emph asString , '-',
> >>> pointSize printString.
> >>>
> >>>    - Dan
> >> Hi Dan,
> >>
> >> I tried again. On a Windows 7 system, I stored the contents of
> both
> >> zips
> >> in a folder, started the image and exported 'Calibri' without
> any
> >> problems.
> >>
> > On my Windows 7 I tried to export 'Calibri' and got MNU: receiver
> of "nextPutAll:" is nil.
> > This is the same problem which led to my work-around above. Don't
> waste any more time on
> > this. It may be something clobbered a .dll and has nothing to do
> with Squeak. I will continue
> > to work on it because I need a fixed-width font. Not having it has
> me stalled on a project.
> >
> 
> Then I suggest the following: Save the contents of those zips to a
> thumb 
> drive. Borrow a Windows machine, from someone that doesn't do weird
> stuff with dlls and VisualStudio ;-) . Run from the thumb drive, and
> take it home.
> 

Did that on my wife's laptop and got the same result. Trust me, she does not have Visual 
Studio or anything else more rad than FireFox :-)


> Oh, something else. On the Mac, the procedure generated txt files
> with 
> integer numbers. On Windows there are Floats. Most likely that is
> wrong...
> 
> Mhhh. Maybe tonight I'll try to export Bitstream Vera Sans Mono or
> Inconsolata myself...
> 

That would sure be great. When I started this journey many moons ago, Inconsolata was my 
idea of a great font to have on Cuis.

> >> In any case, this is not part of Cuis. It wasn't even meant for
> >> distribution, just for my own use when I built the Bitmap Vera
> Sans
> >> fonts in Cuis/Squeak/Pharo. I only published it at your
> personal
> >> request, and not in the Cuis repo. It is given without support
> or
> >> warranties. If you want to use it, try understanding what is
> going
> >> on.
> >> After all, it is just Smalltalk. If you do that, and ask
> specific
> >> questions, I'll answer.
> >>
> >> Juan Vuletich
> >
> 
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich