diff --git a/extra/ui/freetype/freetype.factor b/extra/ui/freetype/freetype.factor
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 48164c08f6..8fc320e34c
--- a/extra/ui/freetype/freetype.factor
+++ b/extra/ui/freetype/freetype.factor
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 USING: alien alien.c-types arrays io kernel libc math
 math.vectors namespaces opengl opengl.gl prettyprint assocs
 sequences io.files io.styles continuations freetype
-ui.gadgets.worlds ui.render ui.backend io.mmap ;
+ui.gadgets.worlds ui.render ui.backend byte-arrays ;
 IN: ui.freetype
 
 TUPLE: freetype-renderer ;
@@ -63,18 +63,23 @@ M: freetype-renderer free-fonts ( world -- )
 : ttf-path ( name -- string )
     "/fonts/" swap ".ttf" 3append resource-path ;
 
-: (open-face) ( mapped-file -- face )
+: (open-face) ( path length -- face )
     #! We use FT_New_Memory_Face, not FT_New_Face, since
     #! FT_New_Face only takes an ASCII path name and causes
     #! problems on localized versions of Windows
-    freetype swap dup mapped-file-address swap length 0 f
-    <void*> [ FT_New_Memory_Face freetype-error ] keep *void* ;
+    freetype -rot 0 f <void*> [
+        FT_New_Memory_Face freetype-error
+    ] keep *void* ;
 
 : open-face ( font style -- face )
-    ttf-name ttf-path dup file-length
-    <mapped-file> (open-face) ;
+    ttf-name ttf-path
+    dup file-contents >byte-array malloc-byte-array
+    swap file-length
+    (open-face) ;
 
-: dpi 72 ; inline
+SYMBOL: dpi
+
+72 dpi set-global
 
 : ft-floor -6 shift ; inline
 
@@ -101,7 +106,8 @@ M: freetype-renderer free-fonts ( world -- )
 
 : (open-font) ( font -- open-font )
     first3 >r open-face dup 0 r> 6 shift
-    dpi dpi FT_Set_Char_Size freetype-error <font> ;
+    dpi get-global dpi get-global FT_Set_Char_Size
+    freetype-error <font> ;
 
 M: freetype-renderer open-font ( font -- open-font )
     freetype drop open-fonts get [ (open-font) ] cache ;