[PD] cross-platform font compatibility

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

There is lots in the archives about this topic.

.hc

On Sep 2, 2005, at 5:29 AM, Matthias Blau wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> does anybody know a way to at least loosely ensure cross-platform
> compatibility of the fonts used both for pd objects/messages/comments
> and for guis as well?
>
> I frequently see that patches put together in linux look ugly  
> (sometimes
> unreadable) in win.
> Concerning the pd main font, it usually is smaller in Win than in  
> linux.
> When changed from 10 to 12, it becomes bigger than in linux. The gui
> fonts (I mainly use helvetica) must be made smaller in win (compared to
> linux) in order to get a compatible look.
>
>
> I think that one of the main advantages of pd is that it is rather
> platform-independnet, so a solution would really help here.
>
> Thanks, Matthias
>
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