[PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.39.2-extended-rc1 released // fonts

Miller Puckette mpuckett at imusic1.ucsd.edu
Mon Apr 16 19:08:57 CEST 2007


I think that, since font sizes now differ between platforms, it's probably
OK to introduce a new, uniform font size as long as it doesn't exceed that
of any currently used one by more than about a pixel... and indeed, it will
be a huge benefit to get this straightened out at last!

cheers
Miller

> (Franks' message extracted:)
> 
> Of course having Pd look the same on all platforms is a good goal, and
> Miller also supported this in the past. I'm not against solving this
> at all.  But of course incompatibilities should be kept to a minimum,
> I hope you'll agree with that. (Besides the OS-issues, no versions of
> MSP-Pd that I've used, had size-incompatibilities when using the same
> font.)
> 
> I'm just a bit worrind: Now that you've released new fonts into the
> (pd-extended) wild, there's an additional, new variable to consider
> with regard to compatibility when going further with font
> enhancements.






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