drawing text on MacOS X fails

Started by Andreas Rozek on 12-Jun-2010/0:45:59-7:00
Hello! I am currently investigating REBOL to see if I can use it for the development of (small) platform-independent programs. Graphics capabilities will be an important point. Some stuff is working already, but I can't achieve anti-aliased text under Mac OS X! Using the most recent View release of REBOL 2 for Mac OS X, I am trying s.th. like view layout [ box 200x160 effect [draw [ pen black text 10x20 "Test" ]] ] with lots of variations (with/without font specification, various pen/fill-pen/line-width settings etc.) The "effect" seems to work under Windows, but not under Mac OS X. I even tried the tip found at http://www.compkarori.com/vanilla/display/AGG (after adapting it to Mac OS X with its differnt font paths), but never got any display. Adding a "line" command displayed that line, though - thus, I am quite certain that my commands should be basically correct. Does anybody have any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help! Kind regards, Andreas Rozek
It's unfortunate, but REBOL does not support true-type fonts in OS X.
That's really unfortunate . especially on a platform which is famous for its graphics... Thanks for your response!

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