[PD] pd font finetuning with tk scaling ?

[B. Bogart]

hmmm, and did you try with the -10 pixel based font size?

if the pixel (width) of the font is known then it would be easy to scale
the object box based on the number of characters/spaces.

Is that how this how it works now Miller?

Should be easy to adapt that code to work with a consistant font.

Good work Hans!

b.

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> 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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