Thanks for these responses on the font/gui issue. These are good references for future developments in this area.<br><br>John<br><br>Frank Barknecht wrote:<br><br>>The only reliable way to change the font size in plain Pd is to use the FONT
<br>>BOMB menu you can open with Edit->Font. However different operating<br>>systems have different default resolutions so what looks good on<br>>Windows doesn't look good on Linux normally (and result in comments
<br>>stretching into and over objects etc). You can also set the default<br>>font size for new patches with the "-font 12" startup option. And<br>>then you can select a different font face with "-typeface ..."
<br><br>carmen wrote:<br><br>>the main issue is pd (server) thinks it knows what the font size is after rendering on the >client. so you get the overlap and sizing issues since its not using bounding boxes from the >client to control positioning. if you just want to deuglify the text, configure Tk with >--enable-xft (linux) or set the font to something ClearType (win XP or greater) then change >the font. to do this you might still have to find/replace all instances of courier to tahoma in >the pd/src/*.{c,tk} files , or maybe the pdsettings mechanism obsoleted this need..
<br><br>"bd pd" wrote:<br><br>>I thought i would try to answer your first post with my own first..<br>><br>>in the build im using (Pd-0.39.2-extended-test4) there is an edit menu<br>>(only when a patch window is open) which has a "font" and "tidy up"
<br>>option. I was glad to find it too.<br><br>