On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 10:52 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > > > I had to install pd-extended on a Ubuntu Lucid box and the .deb listed > > in the download section still has a tk8.4 dependency, which in turns > > seems to give a font problem [1]? > > What I do is recompile the core of Pd-Extended 42 myself. It takes 5 > minutes, and then I combine it with a set of precompiled externals from a > deb file. This allows me to use Tcl/Tk 8.5, because Tcl/Tk 8.4 is way too > old. I think that everybody on Linux deserves to use Tcl/Tk 8.5 fonts with > Pd-Extended 42. > > However, the problem that I have with Tk 8.4 is just the antialias. > > Tk 8.4 and 8.5 on Linux also have an annoying IEM font size difference, > but this does not affect the main font of the patches. > > Helpfile screenshots that I made were all made using Tk 8.5, Pd-Extended > 42, and Ubuntu 9.10. For example, it looks like this : > > http://gridflow.ca/help/%23io.x11-help.html >
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