[PD] Pd-extended 0.41.4-rc3 released!

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Wed May 27 05:25:46 CEST 2009


Excellent, could you add info that to the FAQ entry on this topic:

http://puredata.info/docs/faq/on-gnu-linux-the-fonts-are-strange-and-or-too-big-or-small

.hc

On May 26, 2009, at 10:45 PM, Hector Centeno wrote:

> ah! I found the source of the problem. Googling for the font size
> issue in Fedora I found that it seems that Gnome in Fedora 10 has
> problems auto-detecting the right DPI for the display. In the Font
> section of the Appearance Preferences, clicking on "Details" shows a
> configuration window where the resolution in DPI can be set. I changed
> that to 96 and the fonts work fine in PD with the original values in
> Pd-0.41.4-extended-rc3.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hector
>
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Hector Centeno <hcengar at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Yes, I do have that code in pd.tk which I had already hacked before  
>> in
>> a similar way. Under OpenSuse those font sizes work fine but in  
>> Fedora
>> the 8 has to be changed by 7 like this:
>>
>> set sizelist "5 6 7 9 10 12 14 16 19 25"
>>
>> For some reason in general the fonts in Fedora look bigger. After
>> getting use to the sizes in OpenSuse I had to reduce everything in  
>> the
>> gnome settings.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hector
>>
>> p.s. I attached a screenshot of the way it looks with set sizelist "5
>> 6 8 9 10 12 14 16 19 25"
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at 
>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Ah, I thought that "Fedora Package" might have meant some official  
>>> package
>>> included in Fedora.
>>>
>>> - could you post a screenshot?
>>>
>>> - do you have Bitstream Vera Sans Mono installed?
>>>
>>> - in /usr/local/lib/pd/bin/pd.tk, do you have this code around  
>>> line 3996:
>>>
>>>        if {$::tcl_version eq "8.5"} {
>>>                set sizelist "5 6 8 9 10 12 14 16 19 25"
>>>        } else {
>>>                set sizelist "8 9 10 12 14 16 18 24 30 36"
>>>        }
>>>
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>> On May 26, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Hector Centeno wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, I installed the Pd-0.41.4-extended-rc3-planetccrma9- 
>>>> i386.tar.bz2
>>>> package for Fedora available at
>>>> http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html
>>>>
>>>> Hector
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at 
>>>> >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Which package is that?  Did you try this release?
>>>>>
>>>>> .hc
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 26, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Hector Centeno wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Just wanted to let you know that using the Fedora package in  
>>>>>> Fedora
>>>>>> Core 10 the font still seems too big. The text still sticks out  
>>>>>> of the
>>>>>> object boxes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hector
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at 
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think this is basically ready to go
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please test on Windows and give feedback!  I haven't heard  
>>>>>>> anything
>>>>>>> about
>>>>>>> Windows.  It's looking ready for release, so please try it if  
>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>> haven't
>>>>>>> already so we can find the last bugs.  As far as I know, there  
>>>>>>> aren't
>>>>>>> any
>>>>>>> outstanding bugs that need to be fixed for this release.  So I  
>>>>>>> think
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> the release.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Test away and file bugs in the bug tracker!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://puredata.info/dev/bugtracker
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This release candidate includes:
>>>>>>> * on GNU/Linux, corrected font size when using Tcl/Tk 8.5
>>>>>>> * moocow/flite speech synth added on all platforms
>>>>>>> * fixed strict-aliasing build problems with cyclone, iemlib,  
>>>>>>> bsaylor,
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> sigpack
>>>>>>> * (Windows) increased default audio buffer to 100ms since  
>>>>>>> there are
>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>> really flaky audio cards in Windows land
>>>>>>> * (Mac OS X) decreased buffers to 20ms since all Apple  
>>>>>>> hardware that I
>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>> tested in the past 7 years works with that
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> KNOWN BUGS
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Check http://puredata.info/dev/bugtracker before reporting  
>>>>>>> bugs, and if
>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>> find an existing bug report on the same issue, please add your
>>>>>>> information
>>>>>>> there.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Escape, Enter, and Ctrl/Cmd-W don't close the Path and Startup
>>>>>>> preferences
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - pdp_opengl is alpha and will definitely crash Pd
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - loading pdp_opengl will crash Pd if X11 is not open before  
>>>>>>> trying to
>>>>>>> load
>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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