[PD] cross-platform font compatibility

[Matthias Blau]

well ok, the last thing I could find was the statement that this is
being worked on. What is the current status?

--Matthias

Hans-Christoph Steiner schrieb:
> 
> 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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