I like the look of those fonts too. Very tidy :o)

So are those just Arial?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sascha Ludwig" <[email protected]>
To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts


> Hi
>
> Played a bit around with the fonts and settings on my debian 6.0.5
> testbox and finally
> found this color/font/antialiasing quite nice:
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5564313/Screenshot-RDAirPlay%20-%20Host%3A%20rd1%20User%3A%20user%20Log%3A%202012_08_16%20Service%3A%20WLR247.png
>
> It's basically the Polymer GUI Style with a changed background
> basecolor ('R225 G224 B223') (a bit darker than the original setting)
> As font replacement in qt3 config did not work for all used fonts, I
> tweaked the riv 2.1.5 source a bit and replaced the original font to an
> "Arial"
> which apparently had the uses styles 'bold' 'normal'.
> I know antialiasing is not always what you want. But on our Acer T231H
> touchscreens this looks far better than the bitmap font.
> It's a matter of personal taste. So love it or leave it :-)
>
> Only thing that is not perfect is kerning. You may notice it on the
> Button "Full Clock Fade" where the 'de' is not clearly aligned.
> But hey... It's not a design software anyway ;)
>
> Kind regards,
> Sascha
>
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:17:58 +1200, "Gavin Stephens"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I like those fonts too. I think their aspect ratio is better/taller.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Wayne Merricks" <[email protected]>
>> To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System"
>> <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts
>>
>>
>>> Its just plain old 2.1.4 with the Polymer theme.  To be honest Riv has
>>> always looked like this for me.  The screen shot removed the Window
>>> title bar and introduced a shadow for some reason (ALT + Print Screen
>>> was all I hit).
>>>
>>> I've put up a plain screenshot of my stock Debian 6 install (without the
>>> drop shadow effect).
>>>
>>> http://thevoiceasia.com/airplay-deb6.png
>>>
>>> I adjusted the background and button values to I think rgb 225 but
>>> looking at the Ubuntu brightness it seems I should have went to 230/240.
>>>
>>> The only reason I did this is that for some reason Debian has a really
>>> dark grey default value that looks really ugly.
>>>
>>> Wayne Merricks
>>> The Voice Asia
>>>
>>> On 14/08/12 16:57, Alan Peterson wrote:
>>>> Wayne, what version are you running? It looks somewhat different from 
>>>> the
>>>> one I've got, and not just because of the graphics.
>>>> -AP
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Wayne Merricks"
>>>> Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts
>>>>
>>>> Apart from the 3D Effect buttons, my Font looks the same as this on all
>>>> the Debian/Ubuntu installs I've performed.
>>>>
>>>> All I had to do was enable the bitmap fonts:
>>>>
>>>> sudo rm -rf /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
>>>> sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-force-bitmaps.conf 
>>>> /etc/fonts/conf.d
>>>> sudo fc-cache -f -v
>>>>
>>>> Then a quick poke about in qtconfig to enable polymer.
>>>>
>>>> I've put a screen shot of my test machine on the web for comparison.
>>>>
>>>> http://thevoiceasia.com/airplay.png
>>>>
>>>> Wayne Merricks
>>>> The Voice Asia
>>>>
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