[PD] How to have consistent fonts in Pd?

[B. Bogart]

Does this mean we can have impliment the PDDP template for help patches
and it'll look the same on all platforms?

did you try it?

.b.

Mike Wozniewski wrote:
> Okay,
> 
> I think I've figured out the problem. The machines that had font issues
> did not have truetype font support for tcl/tk. In fact, any tcl/tk apps
> on those machines had funny looking fonts.
> 
> Thanks to Marc Lavallée, who provided the following suggestion:
> 
> "On Linux, I would suggest to compile PD against a recent version of
> Tcl/Tk with support for truetype fonts. Here's a good documentation:
> http://amsn.sourceforge.net/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Installation
> +Instructions#tcl/tk "
> 
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2006-13-07 at 16:21 -0400, Mike Wozniewski wrote:
> 
>>Yeah, the edit>font menu only changes the fonts of Pd boxes, but those
>>look fine. It's more the fonts that label the number box objects [nbx]
>>and canvas objects [cnv].
>>
>>I can right click on a [nbx] or [cnv] to open the properties dialogue.
>>But even if I choose times and 12pt for all instances, they will look
>>different on each machine.
>>
>>-Mike
>>
>>On Thu, 2006-13-07 at 15:44 -0400, Alexandre Quessy wrote:
>>
>>>Hi, 
>>>Did you try the menu item : Edit >> Font ?
>>>
>>>aalex
>>>
>>>On 7/13/06, Mike Wozniewski <mike at ozmediasolutions.com> wrote:
>>>        Hi All,
>>>        
>>>        I have a GUI patch that I'm loading on a number of different
>>>        computers 
>>>        (OSX, and various flavors of Linux). There are a number of
>>>        named canvas
>>>        objects, number boxes, etc with fonts.
>>>        
>>>        The problem is that the fonts look different (particularly
>>>        size-wise) on
>>>        every machine.
>>>        
>>>        Does anyone have a method to ensure consistency? Can I add
>>>        fonts in some
>>>        folder and force Pd to use those?
>>>        
>>>        Any help would be appreciated.
>>>        
>>>        Thanks,
>>>        Mike Wozniewski
>>>        
>>>        
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