[PD] Pd-extended 0.41.4-rc3 released!

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Wed May 27 23:37:35 CEST 2009


Ok, I fixed another 8.5 issue, this one with the Help Browser. I am
afraid that the issue of the iemgui's label fonts looks complicated so
that's going to have to wait for the next release.

.hc


On Wed, 27 May 2009 00:11 -0400, "Matt Barber" <brbrofsvl at gmail.com>
wrote:
> PS -- this Fedora hack almost works well for object and message boxes
> -- some of the mappings seem wrong (fiddling with the values in gnome
> on Fedora 10 changes nothing for me).
> 
> This hack also doesn't affect font size for labels on gui objects
> (sliders, bangs, etc.) -- these are too large still.  I haven't yet
> tried it in data structures.  I have a feeling something awful is
> afoot.
> 
> I'll post screenshot comparisons when I can get back to my fedora
> machine.
> 
> 
> Thanks a bunch for your patience on this,
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > 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
> 




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