<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>From:</span></b> Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">>To:</span></b> Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">>Cc:</span></b> pd-dev@iem.at <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday,
June 18, 2013 2:12 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">>Subject:</span></b> Re: [PD-dev] remove tk scaling<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>>What I've never understood is this: why wouldn't it suffice to 'unscale'<br>just the fonts Pd uses explicitly? One can get an unscaled font by asking<br>for a size like -12 - then we wouldn't have to bash tk_scalaing globally<br>(thereby ruining font sizes in open dialogs and whatnot that Pd doesn't<br>depend on anyhow.)<br><br>>(the relevant doc is in the "font" manual age for TK; "If size is<br>a negative number, its absolute value is interpreted as a size in pixels."<br><br>That's exactly what Pd does-- I should have said in my previous message<br>I tested patches with 0.44-3 on Debian Wheezy, OSX, and Windows<br>XP. All the iemgui and object fonts must be negative because
they are<br>pixel exact whether you use [tk scaling 0.2] or [tk scaling 8].<br><br>Furthermore, if someone codes a gui external that doesn't use pixel<br>sizes for fonts to appear on the canvas _and_ they want pixel-exactness,<br>it's a bug, no?<br><br>-Jonathan<br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>