[PD] default font for pdp_text and pdp_qtext

[ydegoyon at gmail.com]

s'lam,

i don't specially wants to revert to this,
choose a font that is actually delivered with
recent linuxes and other platforms ...

it just sounded you were complaining about something
that you did in pd-extended ...

saludos,
sevy

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> If you want to revert to that, I am fine with it. I never could get 
> that helmet.ttf font working, that's why I switched it to Bitstream 
> Vera. Since GNOME used that font as its default, it would be the most 
> likely font to be already installed.
>
> .hc
>
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 2:11 PM, ydegoyon at gmail.com wrote:
>
>>
>> s'lam,
>>
>> yeh but these fonts, you introduced them ...
>> at irst, pidip was using helmet.ttf
>> that was coming with the source package ..
>>
>> massalama,
>> sevy
>>
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> So now that Bitstream Vera seems to have been purged from Debian and
>>> Ubuntu, I think that the PiDiP text objects should use a different font
>>> as the default. The GNOME default font is now DejaVu, so that probably
>>> makes sense to use.
>>>
>>> Otherwise, unless people manually install Bitstream Vera from 
>>> outside of
>>> Debian/Ubuntu, they'll get this:
>>>
>>> PiDiP : additional video processing objects for PDP
>>> version 0.12.24 ( ydegoyon at free.fr )
>>> error: [pdp_text] error: could not load default font, no text 
>>> rendering!
>>> install Bitstream Vera, it's free! (http://www.gnome.org/fonts/)
>>> error: [pdp_qtext] error: could not load default font, no text 
>>> rendering!
>>> install Bitstream Vera, it's free! (http://www.gnome.org/fonts/)
>>>
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
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