<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444242591154_3518">Silly me, I forgot this is Pd so it has to be way more complex than that...</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444242591154_2813"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444242591154_2778">Add this line to pdtk_text_new in pdtk_text.tcl:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444242591154_3517"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444242591154_3516" dir="ltr">pdtk_post "the actual font we are sending to tk is: [get_font_for_size $font_size]\n"</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444242591154_3609" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444242591154_3567" dir="ltr">Now do the test I mentioned before.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444242591154_3643" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444242591154_3644" dir="ltr">-Jonathan<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444242591154_2777"><span></span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 2:16 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list <pd-list@lists.iem.at> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv7772864380"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv7772864380"><div id="yiv7772864380yui_3_16_0_1_1444240184227_4808"><div id="yiv7772864380yui_3_16_0_1_1444240184227_4807" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv7772864380yui_3_16_0_1_1444240184227_3053">Hi katja,</div><br clear="none"><div id="yiv7772864380yui_3_16_0_1_1444240184227_3963"><div id="yiv7772864380yui_3_16_0_1_1444240184227_4884">Could you do a test? Make a simple patch with a single object in it, and use the same canvas font size you did above. Then run Pd with -d 3 flag and see what font size is actually being sent from Pd to the GUI on each distro.<br clear="none"></div></div><div id="yiv7772864380yui_3_16_0_1_1444240184227_4073"><div id="yiv7772864380yui_3_16_0_1_1444240184227_5002"><br clear="none"></div></div><div id="yiv7772864380yui_3_16_0_1_1444240184227_4818">-Jonathan<br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv7772864380yui_3_16_0_1_1444240184227_3692"><span></span></div> <br clear="none"><div class="yiv7772864380qtdSeparateBR" id="yiv7772864380yui_3_16_0_1_1444240184227_4882"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><div> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div class="yiv7772864380qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7772864380yqt9841465142" id="yiv7772864380yqtfd49191"><div class="yiv7772864380yqt1803262809" id="yiv7772864380yqtfd89925"><div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 12:28 PM, katja <katjavetter@gmail.com> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv7772864380y_msg_container">Hello,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">A particular font size issue can be observed in vanilla Pd and package<br clear="none">puredata on Raspbian Wheezy and Jessie: font size 10 is larger for<br clear="none">object boxes, message boxes and comments than for IEM guis (bang,<br clear="none">toggle, slider, radio button, canvas). Object/message/comment<br clear="none">characters are too large in number of pixels. When Edit > Font > Font<br clear="none">Size is set to 8, their size is identical to IEM gui font size 10.<br clear="none">This inconsistency does not happen for me on Xubuntu. A test patch and<br clear="none">two screenshots are attached for illustration.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">For IEM guis, font size 10 translates to 6 pixels per character on<br clear="none">both systems, given the default font type DejaVu Sans Mono. For object<br clear="none">boxes, message boxes and comments, font size 10 is 6 pixels on Xubuntu<br clear="none">and almost 7 pixels on Raspbian.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I don't know if this issue is related to font size effects on Windows<br clear="none">as described by Roman in another thread. In any case, consequences are<br clear="none">similar: patches created on Xubuntu tend to look messy on Raspbian,<br clear="none">sometimes with overlapping texts. With XFCE (Xubuntu's default desktop<br clear="none">environment) installed on Raspbian the issue still persists. Custom<br clear="none">dpi setting has no effect on Pd. What else might cause the difference<br clear="none">in behavior on those systems?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Katja<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at" target="_blank" href="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at">Pd-list@lists.iem.at</a> mailing list<br clear="none">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div></div></div><div class="yiv7772864380yqt1803262809" id="yiv7772864380yqtfd76648"><div class="yiv7772864380yqt9841465142" id="yiv7772864380yqtfd32903"> </div></div></div><div class="yiv7772864380yqt1803262809" id="yiv7772864380yqtfd38555"><div class="yiv7772864380yqt9841465142" id="yiv7772864380yqtfd21121"> </div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="yqt1803262809" id="yqtfd01316">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at" href="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at">Pd-list@lists.iem.at</a> mailing list<br clear="none">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>