[PD] pd font finetuning with tk scaling ?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think I found something:  if you change the fontspec from Xwindows  
style ( -*-courier-bold--normal--10-) to standard Tk style { courier 10  
bold }, then it looks like the fonts are the same size on MacOSX and  
Windows.  But then, the only problem is that the object boxes don't  
adjust, and are too short for the object text.

It actually swings it the other way, with the same font being bigger on  
Windows than on OSX.


.hc

On Nov 26, 2005, at 3:37 PM, carmen wrote:

>> I don't see how the point size will be somehow different in aspect  
>> ratio
>>  from the pixel size?
>
> why point/pixel sizes at all? for years the way to specify a font size  
> for web is in "em" units. 1.0em 0.8em etc..
>
>> If courier 12 is say 10pixels wide then it should be identical to
>> courier -10 visually, since the aspect *should* be the same.
>
> even a 12 point font can be different on the same platform depending  
> on which DPI you launched your X server at, which toolkit you are  
> using, etc..
>
>> Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by the "at least three  
>> dimensions
>> to a font size"?
>
> id say theres at least 4... platform, dpi, font, fontsize
>
>> 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. :(
>
> how about a scalable canvas with a client-side algo to make sure  
> nothing overlaps? something like http://whats-your.name/pd/chokun.png  
> but with less ugly colours?
>
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