nanogui: Thread: nanogui widget set

On Wednesday, June 16, 1999 12:24 PM, Ben Pfaff ####@####.#### wrote:
: Greg Haerr ####@####.#### writes:
: 
: 	   If you load the free TTF font under windows, my font grabber
:    will digitize it in approximately 300 milliseconds.
: 
: Why bother doing font grabs when ttf2bdf from freetype will do it
: without needing the screen for a middleman?  Works for me.
: -- 
	That sounds like the best answer I've heard so far.  Thanks.
	Is ttf2bdf part of the freetype distribution?

Greg

> 	The bdf fonts originally distributed with are too "thick."  We need
> at least one "thin" font, prefereably san serif, that uses about one pixel
> per stroke in each character.  Try writing some dialog boxes with nano 
> and you'll see what I mean.

Rendering and digitizing the free TTF fonts from the truetex kit should 
give you a nice san serif

: Yup, but at least one non proportional one is needed (don't you hate it
: when ascii art doesn't work because of the fon't you're using :).
:

	I suggest one thick and one thin proportional font, and one
thick fixed-pitch font.  This is what I've implemented in micro-windows,
and I could do it for nano-X as well.  All the nasty font-naming problems
go away, and they're selected using:

	GetStockObject(SYSTEM_FONT)	- 14x16
	GetStockObject(DEFAULT_GUI_FONT)   - 11x13
	GetStockObject(OEM_FIXED_FONT)      -  8 x 6

Greg

Greg Haerr ####@####.#### writes:

	   That sounds like the best answer I've heard so far.  Thanks.
	   Is ttf2bdf part of the freetype distribution?

I think so, it's in the Debian freetype-tools package.
-- 
Can I go now?  I have a program I'm working on.
  from _The Tao of Programming_

> 	Do you know where many free TTF fonts are?

The ones I use for a lot of work are from;

		CTAN mirros, pub/CTAN/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/ttf

Other suggestions from magicpoint are

	http://www.aaa.nl/people/mkatwijk/freettf.html
	http://come.to/freefonts