I wouldn’t know for sure, but looking at the github repo for racket/draw [1] …it looks like, maybe, 1.0.0??
If so, maybe that’s the problem. [1]: https://github.com/racket/draw/blob/master/draw-lib/racket/draw/unsafe/pango.rkt On Saturday, February 17, 2018 at 4:56:28 AM UTC-6, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: > > Which version of Pango is Racket using? > > 2018-02-17 5:27 GMT+01:00 Joel Dueck <[email protected] <javascript:>>: > >> I appreciate it. I had already tried bold and italic, but your note did >> give me the idea to try specifying the weights directly, e.g. "IBM Plex >> Sans, weight=700" —which, sadly, didn't solve my problem, but may have made >> the problem itself a bit more clear. >> >> Going off of the list of weights in Pango’s documentation [1] I cooked up >> this test: >> >> #lang racket >> (require pict) >> >> >> >> (define weights >> '("100" ; thin (since Pango 1.24) >> "200" ; ultralight >> "300" ; light >> "350" ; semilight (since Pango 1.36.7) >> "380" ; book (since Pango 1.24) >> "400" ; default >> "500" ; normal (since Pango 1.24) >> "600" ; semibold >> "700" ; bold >> "800" ; ultrabold >> "900" ; heavy >> "1000")); ultraheavy (since Pango 1.24) >> >> (define (compare-weights font-name) >> (apply vl-append (map (lambda (f) (text font-name (string-append >> font-name ", weight=" f) 34)) weights))) >> >> >> When I do (compare-weights "IBM Plex Sans") it becomes obvious that >> Racket is actually only able to use four of Plex Sans’s seven weights (on >> macOS). >> >> Input Serif [2] is another good example. It has six weights but this test >> shows only three of them being used. >> >> [1]: >> https://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/pango-Fonts.html#PangoWeight >> [2]: http://input.fontbureau.com >> >> On Friday, February 16, 2018 at 3:48:51 PM UTC-6, Robby Findler wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure what the right answer is here, but in some specific cases >>> that have happened to me along these lines, I've found that specifying >>> 'italic or 'bold works out. >>> >>> Sorry that's not much to go on. >>> >>> Robby >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Joel Dueck <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Greetings, long time lurker/first time posting here. I have been >>> working on >>> > this one for a couple of days and can't seem to figure it out. >>> > >>> > I'm having an issue where on macOS, there are some fonts/variants >>> returned >>> > by get-face-list that I can't actually use with a drawing function >>> like >>> > text. >>> > >>> > #lang racket >>> > (require pict racket/draw) >>> > >>> > (define (list-fonts str) >>> > (filter (lambda(s) (string=? str (substring s 0 (min (string-length >>> str) >>> > (string-length s))))) >>> > (get-face-list #:all-variants? #t))) >>> > >>> > (define (demo-font str) >>> > (apply vl-append (map (lambda (f) (text f f 30)) (list-fonts str)))) >>> > >>> > Attached is a screenshot comparison of the results of this code on >>> Windows >>> > and macOS, both using Racket 6.12. >>> > >>> > To sum up the problem “narratively”, as it were: on Windows, among the >>> > strings returned by get-face-list is "IBM Plex Sans Text, Medium" and >>> I can >>> > do (text "Hello" "IBM Plex Sans Text, Medium" 30), and pict will draw >>> using >>> > that font. >>> > >>> > But on macOS, where get-face-list will include the string "IBM Plex >>> Sans, >>> > Text" (note comma), if I do (text "Hello" "IBM Plex Sans, Text"), I >>> instead >>> > get the result in the default sans serif font. >>> > >>> > Furthermore, all of IBM Plex Sans’s 16 weights work properly on >>> > macOS/Racket—except the "Text" weight! >>> > >>> > A similar problem happens with some other fonts on macOS, e.g. Halyard >>> Micro >>> > Regular and Halyard Micro Book — the Regular weight works but the Book >>> > weight displays using the Regular weight, despite using the exact >>> string >>> > found in get-face-list as the font/variant name in the call to text. >>> > >>> > I did my main example using IBM Plex Sans since it's a free font [1] >>> should >>> > anyone wish to replicate my results for themselves. >>> > >>> > How would I best go about finding out what is happening here? Are >>> certain >>> > words like “book” or “text” just not recognized/useable as a font >>> weight on >>> > macOS? Apologies if I’m missing something obvious! >>> > >>> > [1]: https://ibm.github.io/type/ >>> > >>> > -- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups >>> > "Racket Users" group. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an >>> > email to [email protected]. >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Racket Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > -- > Jens Axel Søgaard > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. 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