[PD] pd-0.40.3 anti-aliased (screenshot)

Miller Puckette mpuckett at imusic1.ucsd.edu
Tue Sep 25 21:46:36 CEST 2007


Well, I'm trying to avoid dependences on stuff that isn't absolutely
guaranteed to be there in the OS, so that Pd can work out-of-box without
running installation scripts.

Also, even though the sizes are apparently predictable with lucida etc.,
they are quite uncomfortably different from what Pd currently gets, at
least from the tests I've made.

cheers
M

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:44:41PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> If you set tk scaling to a fixed value, and use a font that is known  
> to be installed (i.e. included with Pd), then the font sizes quite  
> reliable in terms of pixel sizes, at least in my tests.
> 
> .hc
> 
> 
> On Sep 24, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> > The problem I'm having is that there seems to be no reliable way to  
> > get
> > a text font of a desired size using the Tk font primitives.  In  
> > practice
> > you can get a fixed-width font with a particular pixel width, but then
> > the heights vary widely.  If I simply fixed the height myself from Pd,
> > it would be much easier to get fonts to fit patches.
> >
> >
> > cheers
> > M
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 12:55:07PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> >>
> >> Miller wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is why I'm thinking about what I call the nuclear option:
> >>> separating all text into separate lines
> >>
> >> It's like the Qu?b?cois nucular family blowing up. It's proof that  
> >> QC has
> >> WMD. Jean Cr?tin once said: ?Pourquoi acheter des carabines ? r?p? 
> >> tition
> >> et de l'armement nucl?aire pour s'amuser? C'est dangereux! Et  
> >> quand c'est
> >> dans la maison, bien il peut y avoir un enfant qui se sert de ? 
> >> a, ...?
> >> (http://www.mef.qc.ca/audio/10vag.wav). Nowadays in QC, couples  
> >> prevent
> >> divorce by simply not getting married
> >> (http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/09/13/156634.html).
> >>
> >>> and controlling the vertical spacing from within Pd.  I don't  
> >>> wanna do
> >>> it, but it might be the only way out.
> >>
> >> Out of what?... first define what you are trapped into. You are  
> >> not bound
> >> to Courier fonts any more than you are strapped to a typewriter.
> >>
> >>  _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ...
> >> | Mathieu Bouchard - t?l:+1.514.383.3801, Montr?al QC Canada
> >
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