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Paddle2See
Scratch Team
1000+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

Happy August!

Much of the team was away for a lot of the week so not a lot of changes.

Visible
The paint editor has a new font (Donegal) - for your more formal printing needs! There may be one or two more additional fonts later, but not right away. Every additional font adds on to the size of the file that must be downloaded to the browser when the project runs - so we have to be really careful not to let that get too large.

Behind the Scenes
More work on the off-line version of the project editor and player

Beginning work on a statistics page to show graphs of site activity (projects, comments, users, etc.)
Epicness123
Scratcher
1000+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

First post.

a new font? Yay!

Last edited by Epicness123 (Aug. 1, 2013 22:08:24)

cobraguy
Scratcher
1000+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

Second Post!

First updates of August on the first of August!

Last edited by cobraguy (Aug. 1, 2013 22:16:46)

DotDash
Scratcher
1000+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

Third post, yay more fonts
goldfish678
Scratcher
1000+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

4th post! Yay I just noticed the new font!

Last edited by goldfish678 (Aug. 1, 2013 23:01:36)

FireNinjaGAME
Scratcher
100+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

5th post! YAY FOR FONTS!
sportsdude6
Scratcher
100+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

6th post! YEAH NEW FONT!!!
turkey3
Scratcher
1000+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

Woohoo!
jji7skyline
Scratcher
1000+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

8th post.

So you can't use local fonts then?
LiFaytheGoblin
Forum Moderator
1000+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

(9th post - I had to)
yay more working on the offline version
Gaza101
Scratcher
500+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

Awesome! I can't wait to see the editor when it's done
infinitytec
Scratcher
1000+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

13th post! Yay! Moar updates!
rias
Scratcher
43 posts

1 August 2013 Updates


LiFaytheGoblin wrote:

(9th post - I had to)
yay more working on the offline version
mrsrec
Scratcher
500+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

Darn, I Thought I Might Be The One To Get First Post.
Here's An Update You Didn't Mention.
If You Press (+) On A List, The New Item Appears At The Bottom, Not The Top.
I'm Mad To Not Get That First POST!
Paddle2See
Scratch Team
1000+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

jji7skyline wrote:

8th post.

So you can't use local fonts then?
No - we elected to go with internal fonts for Scratch 2.0. There were issues with local fonts - what looked good on one computer would end up looking not good at all on another computer that didn't have that font.

You can still work with other fonts - but you would have to import them as either vector or bitmap images and hand assemble them into words - pretty tedious, but maybe worthwhile for somebody with a real pressing need for a specialized font.
DotDash
Scratcher
1000+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

Paddle2See wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

8th post.

So you can't use local fonts then?
No - we elected to go with internal fonts for Scratch 2.0. There were issues with local fonts - what looked good on one computer would end up looking not good at all on another computer that didn't have that font.

You can still work with other fonts - but you would have to import them as either vector or bitmap images and hand assemble them into words - pretty tedious, but maybe worthwhile for somebody with a real pressing need for a specialized font.
hmmmm maybe ill take a shot at that.
nathanprocks
Scratcher
1000+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

Paddle2See wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

8th post.

So you can't use local fonts then?
No - we elected to go with internal fonts for Scratch 2.0. There were issues with local fonts - what looked good on one computer would end up looking not good at all on another computer that didn't have that font.

You can still work with other fonts - but you would have to import them as either vector or bitmap images and hand assemble them into words - pretty tedious, but maybe worthwhile for somebody with a real pressing need for a specialized font.
Why not embed the local font in the project?
rias
Scratcher
43 posts

1 August 2013 Updates

Will there be a chirpcompiler for scratch 2.0?

Last edited by rias (Aug. 3, 2013 08:41:30)

HinderwellSchool
New Scratcher
1 post

1 August 2013 Updates

Loving these updates

Paddle2See wrote:

Visible
The paint editor has a new font (Donegal) - for your more formal printing needs! There may be one or two more additional fonts later, but not right away. Every additional font adds on to the size of the file that must be downloaded to the browser when the project runs - so we have to be really careful not to let that get too large.
Can you not use WebFonts?
BlueDogXL
Scratcher
100+ posts

1 August 2013 Updates

When will new fonts come out?
EDIT: 20th post!

Last edited by BlueDogXL (Aug. 3, 2013 20:29:10)

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