Yes, fonts are an issue. In rev itself, on Debian, fonts don't seem to work completely properly. But yet they work just fine on Mandriva. I don't know why. Its not surprising there is an issue with compiled applications in some distros.
My own little app, its written on Debian and then moved to Mandriva because that's what the users have. It works just fine (not that it is very demanding). In fact it works identically which is a relief. But the objects aren't aligned in quite the same way. For instance, two side by side fields that fit perfectly on Debian seem to overlap just a bit on Mandriva. Even the button legends in the same standard font seem to vary a bit in size. I've started leaving more space than really seems necessary around objects, but don't know how to handle the font issue other than again making the objects a bit bigger. Possibly Jacque's font problem could be caused by some Linux installs not having the fonts you're using, and doing substitution? For instance, you can't assume they have the MS fonts - tahoma and so on. Many people will install them after installing the distro, but none will come with them out of the box for licensing reasons. Maybe you have to restrict the range of fonts used to ones you can be sure they have? There may also be an issue about paths. If you supply fonts, but the place where you put your fonts is not on the path of your user for fonts, then your app won't find them. A general recipe for fixing this in Rev is going to need someone more expert than me though. If doing this for a living, the solution has to be multi-boot for testing. Its not very hard. Just start out with a clean big disk. Then partition it for the first install to leave a lot of free space, and have the second and later installs use free space. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Slackware. Maybe Mandriva, though reports vary on 2007. You can pick which you want to boot from at startup. A bit like making sure you're OK on Tiger as well as Leopard, or XP SP1 as well as SP2. Or now, Vista. Then tell your users it is tested on XYZ. I'll write a longer post on Rev on Linux in a day or so. But do remember, this is an amateur at programming and at Rev writing. Its what Dan Shafer calls an inventive user. Its not a real Linux guru/sysadmin. You have been warned! Peter Jacque wrote: >For example, I just ran one of my stacks in Ubuntu and the fonts > I'd assigned were all wrong. If every Linux user is running a different > distro, are there any ways to make our stacks look at least somewhat > decent on anyone's machine? Any suggestions about this? _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
