[PD] pd-0.40.3 anti-aliased (screenshot)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think that fighting against Tk and different font files is not a  
good option.  That's basically what we have now, and it's not working  
well.  I don't think fighting more against Tk will make things better.

I think the best option is to use a standard font that is known to be  
the same size on all platforms.  Like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.   
There are others as well. Inconsolata looks quite promising, but  
isn't done yet.

The other option is to choose fonts that are proven to be the same  
size.  Courier has proven to be different sizes on each platform.   
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono and Monaco (included in Mac OS X) are quite  
close.  I think that Lucida Console (included in Windows) could be  
quite close as well, but I haven't measured it.

.hc

On Sep 22, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> This is why I'm thinking about what I call the nuclear option:  
> separating
> all text into separate lines and controlling the vertical spacing  
> from within
> Pd.  I don't wanna do it, but it might be the only way out.
>
> cheers
> M
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 02:22:21PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, patrick wrote:
>>
>>> i just installed pd-0.40.3 from miller's site and boom!
>>> http://www.workinprogress.ca/pd/pdantialiased.png
>>> looking good: font with anti-aliasing...
>>> i guess it's because it is using tk8.5
>>
>> It's not just antialiased, it's TrueType, and the TrueType Courier  
>> has too
>> much spacing above and below, so either your font gets very small  
>> or your
>> boxes get too big.
>>
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