[PD-dev] more on the 12 point font mystery

[federico]

sorry but I couldn't find fonttest.tcl on my computer, and even with
google. can you post a link, or the script itself?

On 9/22/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> 8.4.14+cvs on Mac OS X
>
> 8.4.12 on Ubuntu/feisty
>
> Please take screenshots of fonttest.tcl on 8.5, I'd be interested to
> see how it compares.  Also, if you want to do the measurements that
> would be also good to have.
>
> .hc
>
> On Sep 22, 2007, at 6:27 AM, federico wrote:
>
> > which is your version of Tk?
> > please note that when I switched to Tk-8.5 with xft support
> > (anti-aliased fonts) I found even bigger fonts while looking at my old
> > tcl/tk projects
> >
> > shall we collect again the information, for filling a matrix of
> > font sizes?
> >
> > note: the matrix this time would have to be the cartesian product of:
> > (win32 linux macos)x(<=tk8.4 tk8.5xft)x(font sizes...)x(pd version?)
> >
> > On 9/22/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I decided to take Pd out of the equation, so I did a quick test using
> >> just Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X and Ubuntu Studio.  It looks like it confirms
> >> what I am talking about: for some reason 12 point is big on GNU/
> >> Linux.  So I think we can handle this by forcing 12 point fonts to
> >> actually use 11 point on GNU/Linux machines.
> >>
> >> Here is the script and the screenshots:
> >>
> >> http://pow.idmi.poly.edu/~hans/pdfonts/fonttest/
> >>
> >> .hc
> >>
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