Friday, 7 June 2002
F-Script 1.2.2 released. Tested with F-Script Anywhere, it works.
2:57 PMThursday, 6 June 2002
The TiBook came bundled with some great software, including GraphicConverter, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner and Snapz Pro. A software bundle you'll actually use: what a concept! It's really nice to see Apple recognizing the great stuff coming out of small developers, though. Even if OmniOutliner isn't exactly my favorite outlining program… perhaps I should start making some feature requests.
For some reason FedEx delivered it to Central Stores, even though my home address was the only one on the package. Oh well.
Wednesday, 5 June 2002
Here's some sample code for using the CoreGraphics rendering in QuickDraw text. It refers to an Apple technote, which appears to be unreleased as of yet.
My new PowerBook has been christened Shirley. Otherwise used so far, in order: Little Beeper (PowerBook 540), Elmyra (UMAX J700), Gogo (Newton 2100), Buster (PowerBook G3), Byron (Power Mac G4), Babs (PowerBook G4), WB (AirPort base station), Calamity (Power Mac 9500), Montana Max (LaserWriter Pro 630), Concord (PowerBook G4).
I'm going to run out of untainted Tiny Toon Adventures characters soon. I'd prefer to stay away from the more bizarre characters (Hamton, Plucky, Fifi). Still in the running are Sneezer, Sweetie, Bookworm, Furrball, and a few others.
So I'll need a new (and perhaps more current) naming scheme at some point.
If you're using Mac OS X 10.1.5, get Silk: it patches Carbon apps to enable the new hinted Quartz anti-aliased rendering. I've found a few glitches involving text highlighting, which explain why Apple doesn't enable it system-wide, but overall it works very well, especially in Mozilla.
I'm glad Apple found a way to preserve font metrics while enabling antialiasing, but it is a bit strange to see the unhinted and hinted versions onscreen at the same time.
