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

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Sun Sep 23 01:21:42 CEST 2007


You can get it in the link I posted at the start of this thread:

http://pow.idmi.poly.edu/~hans/pdfonts/fonttest/fonttest.tcl

.hc

On Sep 22, 2007, at 6:15 PM, federico wrote:

> 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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