Em sex., 24 de jan. de 2020 às 16:50, IOhannes m zmölnig <[email protected]> escreveu:
> On 1/24/20 3:38 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > > Hi, I've been updating and fixing cyclone/comment and I realized Pd loads > > similar but different fonts depending on the operating system. > > before you investigate on what Pd might possibly do wrong, please > consider (and answer) the following questions: > - how do wide-spread text editing applications (e.g. MS/Open/Libre > Office) handle this? > I was actually testing this before asking here. I could see that Libre Office did something similar where it loaded a similar font to Helvetica when I didn't have it. At least I think so. > - how do even more wide-spread text reading applications (browsers) > handle this? > - how do graphic applications (e.g. photoshop/gimp) handle this? > - how do typesetting applications (e.g. Indesign/Illustratur/Inkscape) > handle this? > > test all of them on multiple platforms and multiple installations of > each platform (as used by real people; not just pristine installations). > > can you name a reference application that handles fonts "correctly"? > what does this reference application do to achieve this? My actual main concern comes from dealing with cyclone/comment and I just wanted to confirm if we had "DejaVu Sans Mono" for every platform, which I think it's quite clear. I'm just trying to see if it's working correctly and I just wanna know what kind of font it's loading, namely when you don't have something like "helvetica" or "times", but it finds something similar. My best/ideal solution is if I could make cyclone/comment say *you tried to load helvetica, but I loaded "x" instead*. Now, apparently this is handled internally via tk, and I've been having a hard time figuring out how it does so and if it's possible finding out and printing the actual loaded font. So the it seems both cyclone/comment and iemguis load fonts in the same way and this is handled by tk in a rather obscure way. As far as Pd issues go. I'm sure it was attempted to make this as close to 100% equal as possible, and I'm just curious on what still needed to be made. Now, considering that iemguis properties come with 3 harcoded fonts and it seems only one of them is guaranteed, I could suggest we tried to make Pd come with the exact 3 same fonts or maybe find out and use on the drop down menu the actual font name we're using. cheers
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