Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Possibly Jacque's font problem could be caused by some Linux installs not having the fonts you're using, and doing substitution?
Yes, I'm sure that is the issue. It was pretty obvious when I looked at the field properties in my stack under Ubuntu. There is a difference in behavior with the Linux engine though, probably due to the fact that it is so far behind the other releases.
I knew I'd need an installed font to make it look right, and the scripts already branch to accomodate different platforms. A handler sets up the field properties depending on what's available in the OS. The problem I have is that if there is no consistent font in any Linux disto, I'm stuck as to what font to assign. The fields need to have a large display textsize. If the font is not available, it defaults not only to an unknown substitution font, but the textsize reduces to 10 point. In the context of my stack, the appearance is horrible. So I definitely need to know what fonts to assign at openstack so that the resizing won't happen.
After looking at the fontnames, I made a guess that "Sans" would be a universal system setting and that by replacing the textfont property with "Sans" for Linux, any distro would substitute the user's sans-serif system choice. That didn't happen. I don't know if Rev is just interpreting "sans" as a real font name, or if my assumptions about what should happen are wrong.
It would be great, if you know it, to hear whether there are any universal fonts or font settings across distros. I think the font issue is one of the biggest that cross-platform stack developers would need to address.
By the way, your posts are invaluable. I am saving every one of them, and I hope you write lots more. I know you feel you are talking to your grandmother, but for some of us, that's exactly the level we need. I very much appreciate the time you've taken to write up your extensive thoughts and I hope you'll keep going. Thanks very much.
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