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This is a web-based "Where is New Horizons now?" page: http://www.yaohua2000.org/cgi-bin/New%20Horizons.pl and another page for making New Horizons' distance from Pluto as your signature on the forum: http://www.yaohua2000.org/cgi-bin/New%20Horizons.gif You can custom your own signature, like this: ...

1. Use OS-native font render engine at least in Windows and Mac OS X version for better internationalization support especially for those CJK users.

2. For celestial bodies in our solar system, what if planets' orbit elements with respect to Solar System Barycenter instead of Sol?

yaohua2000 It may be possible with Windows using OpenGL's wglUseFontOutlines function, but not sure it work with other OS. As a Mac user, I did some research and it is also possible in Mac OS X. So I think to use OS-native font support to render text, or at least make it as an option and let users ...

Rex wrote:So localizations is possible.
I want to translate some scripts into Chinese, but it doesn't work properly.

It is what I want, it is the time drop .txf and use OS-native font rendering engine.

At least on Mac OS X, it seems that Quartz can manipulate NSOpenGLView directly, and write text with OS-native fonts. So users don't have to download and install unnecessary txf fonts. Especially for those CJK users, those fonts might be large.

I've just downloaded a copy of Celestia version 1.3.2 from sourceforge.net. While I was trying to go some object, the system stop responding first, but the mouse pointer can move, after about 5 seconds, even the mouse pointer cannot move. The whole system stop responding and I've to press the Power ...