[PD] call for testing: Pd-extended fonts on GNU/Linux

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Sun Sep 23 02:19:30 CEST 2007


Strange, were those strange boxes for spaces always there?  Any idea  
why that might be happening?  If you use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono in  
a different app, like Terminal, does it work ok?

Otherwise, the font spacing looks good, including 12 point.

.hc

On Sep 22, 2007, at 6:43 PM, Spencer Russell wrote:

> http://www.columbia.edu/~sfr2105/SFR-10.png
> http://www.columbia.edu/~sfr2105/SFR-12.png
> http://www.columbia.edu/~sfr2105/SFR-16.png
>
> I'm using Debian etch, with ttf-bitstream-vera installed. I installed
> Hans's Pd-0.39.3-extended-rc5-debian-stable-i386.deb package.
>
> My resolution is 1400x1050, and I don't think I've done anything
> explicitly to set the DPI.
>
> On 9/21/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>
>> So it turns out that there is at least one person who has problems
>> with the current Pd-extended font setup on GNU/Linux.
>>
>> The only place that I have seen a problem is _only_ 12 point fonts
>> and _only_ on some GNU/Linux machines.  Everywhere else that I have
>> tested (which is 25+ machines at this point) it works.
>>
>> So in an effort to track down the source of this, I ask all y'all
>> running Pd-extended on any flavor of GNU/Linux to post screenshots
>> like this, with Pd launched from the command line so you can see the
>> tk scaling value:
>>
>> http://pow.idmi.poly.edu/~hans/pdfonts/screenshots/
>>
>> Also, it would be very useful to know which flavor of GNU/Linux you
>> are running, which screen resolution, and whether you've set any kind
>> of DPI setting.  Please post the images on the web somewhere (like
>> puredata.info) and I'll gather them from there.
>>
>> Remember, you need to have Bitstream Vera Sans Mono installed and
>> working for things to render correctly.  It's included on most
>> standard installs, but if you have a customized install, you should
>> double-check that it's actually installed.
>>
>> Fedora: yum install bitstream-vera-fonts
>> Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install ttf-bitstream-vera
>>
>> .hc
>>
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