[PD] default font for pdp_text and pdp_qtext

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I did make a change there in the past, but I am currently maintaining  
too many things, I can't keep up.  Therefore I need to drop some  
things.  I figured you are already maintaining pidip, so you might be  
able to take this on.  I can easily revert my changes, but that will  
also just leave things in a non-working state.

I agree with you, I think the best bet would be to use a font that's  
installed on all GNU/Linux systems.  I believe DejaVu is such a font,  
since its the default font for GNOME, among other things.

.hc

On Apr 10, 2010, at 10:00 AM, ydegoyon at gmail.com wrote:

> 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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