On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote: > Silly me, I forgot this is Pd so it has to be way more complex than that... > > Add this line to pdtk_text_new in pdtk_text.tcl: > > pdtk_post "the actual font we are sending to tk is: [get_font_for_size > $font_size]\n" > > Now do the test I mentioned before.
The answer is in both cases: "the actual font we are sending to tk is: ::pd_font_10" > -Jonathan > > > > On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 2:16 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi katja, > > Could you do a test? Make a simple patch with a single object in it, and > use the same canvas font size you did above. Then run Pd with -d 3 flag and > see what font size is actually being sent from Pd to the GUI on each distro. > > -Jonathan > > > > > > On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 12:28 PM, katja <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > A particular font size issue can be observed in vanilla Pd and package > puredata on Raspbian Wheezy and Jessie: font size 10 is larger for > object boxes, message boxes and comments than for IEM guis (bang, > toggle, slider, radio button, canvas). Object/message/comment > characters are too large in number of pixels. When Edit > Font > Font > Size is set to 8, their size is identical to IEM gui font size 10. > This inconsistency does not happen for me on Xubuntu. A test patch and > two screenshots are attached for illustration. > > For IEM guis, font size 10 translates to 6 pixels per character on > both systems, given the default font type DejaVu Sans Mono. For object > boxes, message boxes and comments, font size 10 is 6 pixels on Xubuntu > and almost 7 pixels on Raspbian. > > I don't know if this issue is related to font size effects on Windows > as described by Roman in another thread. In any case, consequences are > similar: patches created on Xubuntu tend to look messy on Raspbian, > sometimes with overlapping texts. With XFCE (Xubuntu's default desktop > environment) installed on Raspbian the issue still persists. Custom > dpi setting has no effect on Pd. What else might cause the difference > in behavior on those systems? > > Katja > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
