[PD-dev] pd's font type

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 31, 2004, at 5:14 AM, cdr wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:23:55AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> Hallo,
>> Reini Urban hat gesagt: // Reini Urban wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks. Bitstream Vera and Tahoma are my favorites.
>>> We could even add "Bitstream Vera" to the distro. I added it also to  
>>> my
>>> libming package.
>>>
>>> And maybe some time add some metrics calculation code.
>>
>> I'm especially waiting for anti-aliasing of fonts on X-Windows, which
>> will come with tk-8.5.
>
> dont know if its just me (i've defoma-add all the winfonts), but  
> miller's version of PD has always showed up as screenfuls of empty  
> white boxes on linux, i think it's due to configuring tk with  
> --enable-xft..if i change the font to anything besids courier it works  
> fine..so yes please thanks for the font menu tim!

I've never heard of that happening.  I've installed Pd on many Debian  
boxes, on x86 and PPC, albeit using the debian packages, but never had  
any font problems.

.hc

>
>> The metrics for the bitstream vera mono font are okay, actually. See
>> the pd.tk-bitstream I posted on pd-list yesterday.
>>
>> Ciao
>> --  
>>  Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__
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