On Feb 12, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 14:19 +0100, matteo sisti sette wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As I mentioned in an earlier unrelated message, I have just upgraded >> to 0.41 and it seems it fixes some critical bugs that made my life a >> hell. >> >> Now, something has changed in how GUI texts look like. >> Probably it's just the font that is being used, I don't know if some >> more aspects are involved (spacings, sizes...). >> >> I make extensive use of GUI, and now my patches made with 0.40.1 >> look horrible. >> >> Is there any way in WINDOWS to configure PD to use the same font that >> was used by default in 0.40.1? Will it be enough to have the gui look >> the same as it before? >> >> I attach two screenshots of the same piece of GUI as it looked in >> 0.40 >> and as it looks now in 0.41. >> Tastes are personal, but I don't really think anybody can honestly >> tell it looks better in the new version... > > i have the impression, that it might be only a scaling issue. the > appearance of fonts in pd is still an issue and, afaik, currently in > focus to be fixed. that is probably why patches look different in > different versions of pd. i think, it would be best to _not_ rely any > particular appearance these days. once all those issues are fixed, it > should be possible to get the same appearance by using a different > fontsize.
The pixel and font sizes are now exactly the same size on all platforms using Pd-extended 0.39.3 as was demonstrated by lots of testing. I am committing to maintaining that in future versions, regardless of what happens with pd-vanilla, since I think it is essential to GUI design and patch layout. .hc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Access to computers should be unlimited and total. - the hacker ethic _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
