[PD-dev] Pd-extended-0.43 appearance

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 21, 2011, at 5:49 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> Hi Hans
>
> I noticed a significant difference between Pd-extended-0.43 and
> Pd-vanilla-0.43 appearance. Symbol- and Numberboxes are 2 px higher in
> Extended than in Vanilla. This is especially problematic in cases  
> where
> a GOP-patch in Vanilla was created so that the number/symbol box
> perfectly fits in. The same GOP-abstraction in Pd-extended does not  
> show
> the number/symbol box at all, because it is overlapping the GOP area  
> of
> the abstraction.

I measured a default number box on Pd-extended 0.42.5 and 0.43.  They  
both were 21x39 pixels at 12 point font size.  I don't know the  
details of the current state of this stuff in vanilla, but in Pd- 
extended, these sizes have been consistent across platform and version  
since 0.41 at least.

> I also noticed that Pd-extended-0.43 on OS X does not use anti-aliased
> fonts, although it is (I think) using Tcl/Tk 8.5, while Pd- 
> vanilla-0.43
> does use anti-aliased fonts.
>
> On Ubuntu both, Pd-extended and Pd-vanilla 0.43, do use anti-aliased
> fonts.


That's an odd bug I've never seen.  Pd-extended on Mac OS X has had  
anti-aliased fonts for a long time (0.40?) and it does on every Mac  
I've seen it on.  Can you post a screenshot?






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