[PD-dev] font tests

[Andre Schmidt]

which font do you mean ?

- menus and overall gui ?
- the embedded stdout ?
- patch canvas ?

for the menus and overall gui i dont see any reason why to use a
fixed-width font...

the embedded stdout reads better with fixed-width font, but should be
very small (the window too), if you need more, resize or use it as its
supposed to be used, flag: -stdout (oh, its called -stderr ? is it
really going to stderr, why?)

removing that embedded stdout from pd main window when used with
-stderr(-stdout) flag could be nice...

in the canvas window i realised that fixed-width fonts are better to
read than non-fixed-width fonts, well i just compared "Bitstream Vera
Sans Mono" and "Bitstream Vera Sans"

why am i referring "bitstream" ? its open source ttf font !

which "courier" do you mean ? ;)

and yes, i was thinking on a font preferences dialog too, but first i
would like to know how many *different fonts do we have/need ?
*i count different sizes of the same font as "different" too...

thinking on fonts...
-andre

ps. i used to be for bitmap fonts, but now i wont go back from tcl/tk8.5
--enable-xft ;) (it really is more enjoyable to read antialiased fonts!)



On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 00:44 +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Probably the best way to deal with which font is to just keep Courier  
> (maybe not bold tho) and then add a font preference.  Any volunteers?
> 
> .hc
> 
> On May 3, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Andre Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > (sorry if double-post, the last didnt seem to get on list, waited 2h)
> >
> > heres how (pure) pd-0.39.2 looks on dapper now (on the left)
> > http://osku.de/pd/foo/pd-dapper01.png
> >
> > it, and other tk progs that used courier, looked "normal" (with good
> > looking courier) couple days ago, so i assume its not "you" who broke
> > things...
> >
> > on the right, some ideas for pd main window and showing how good
> > bitstream true type fonts look like ;) (tcl/tk8.5cvs)
> >
> > -andre
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 13:01 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> >> debian etch/sid, tcl/tk 8.4.12-1
> >>
> >> in the recent process of upgrading from etch to sid, i seriously  
> >> damaged
> >> my xfonts (in pd everything is normal (non-bold!) helvetica; iemgui's
> >> didn't respect the fontsize,...at least i fixed this...)
> >>
> >> which brings us back to shipping a font with pd...
> >>
> >> mf.asdr.
> >> IOhannes
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