On May 18, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Chris McCormick wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:17:34AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: >> Hallo, >> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>> Many newbies think that Pd looks very strange. Many people have >>> expressed gratitude for the switch to the normal weight font. >> >> Why not make a vote? Attached are two screenshots, one with Vera >> bold, >> one with Vera normal, both on Linux, both on pd-extended 0.40. >> >> Which do you prefer? >> >> [ ] normal.png >> [ ] bold.png > > I vote for: > > pd -font=[whatever font you like] > > Failing that, I vote for it looking the way that we are used to seeing > it; courier 12 bold. I especially dislike the way Vera looks in these > screen shots. If you're going to use a font like that then I beg > you to > make it anti-aliased and stop my eyeballs from doing backflips.
Yeah, things look bad in those screenshots. I am not sure of Frank's setup. I'll do more testing on GNU/Linux. Also, those PNGs are an odd format (16bit?) so they were behaving strangely on my computer. I converted them to gifs and they look better. Also, I have added some screenshots from Mac OS X, where the fonts are anti-aliased: http://pow.idmi.poly.edu/~hans/pdfonts/ Since there is obviously some demand for bold fonts, I added a new flag that allows you to set the font weight from the command line or pd-settings file. The flag is "-weight" and it expects either "bold" or "normal". Also, for those who don't like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, there is the "-typeface" flag. Should be in tomorrows auto- builds. .hc > > Best, > > Chris. > > ------------------- > http://mccormick.cx > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- You can't steal a gift. Bird gave the world his music, and if you can hear it, you can have it. - Dizzy Gillespie _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
