[PD] pd font finetuning with tk scaling ?

[B. Bogart]

Hi Miller,

how easy would it be to change all the point sizes in TK and then remove
the C function to do the pixel conversion?

I don't see how the point size will be somehow different in aspect ratio
  from the pixel size?

If courier 12 is say 10pixels wide then it should be identical to
courier -10 visually, since the aspect *should* be the same.

Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by the "at least three dimensions
to a font size"?

The font issue is really a stumbling block for trying to make anything
look constant accross platforms. The current PD documentation is a great
example of this, where, depending on the platform, many help-patches
open with overlapping messages/comments. :(

Will you be able to attend the next PD documentation meeting on tuesday
the 29th of November?

.b.

Miller Puckette wrote:
> Well, they're given to TK as "points", but then in s_main.c, a setup
> routine, glob_initfromgui(), actually searches through the fonts for
> those closest to the desired _pixel_ size.  At tha time I believe TK
> had no way of specifying pixel size.  I'm not sure what the truth is
> now; you can feed TK negative "point sizes" that are supposed to generate
> known pixel sizes, but there are at least three dimensions to a font
> size and I don't know how the single number maps to them.  Ugh...
>
> Miller
>
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 01:24:59PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>>On Nov 26, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Andre Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/tk.htm#M7
>>>>"tk scaling ?-displayof window? ?number?
>>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>>wouldnt this mean that we could do pixel accurate, measurements and
>>>>finetuning (calibration) on the client to get the desired font size ?
>>>
>>>This only applies to distances not specified in pixels.
>>>
>>>
>>>>i made a test and added "tk scaling 1.5" in the beginning of "pd.tk"
>>>>made a test pacth with all gui objects having font size 10... but it
>>>>seems to affect only labels, and nmb2 : http://osku.de/allgui.png
>>>
>>>So now you know which are the things currently specified in pixels...
>>>that
>>>is, almost everything. I don't think "tk scaling" will help us.
>>
>>So that means that the comment font is being specified in pixels
>>somewhere.  That is something that I don't remmeber seeing at all.
>>AFAIK, all of the font definitions in pd.tk/u_main.tk using point
>>numbers.  Where are the point numbers being converted into pixels?
>>
>>.hc
>>
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