[PD] Font Options

[Py Fave]

on my system font is  DejaVu Sans Mono
i find it readable


GEM is an extension of pd , made for opengl
 graphics.
it drives a separate window from pd's interface.


it's in pd-extended, or available here

https://puredata.info/downloads/gem

2015-11-25 3:04 GMT+01:00 Thomas WillNot <113781w at acadiau.ca>:

> Thanks for the response!
>
> What is GEM window and how do I use it?
> Thomas
>
> "Py Fave" <pyfave at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> sorry i replied too fast .
>
> my answer was for text in GEM window.
>
> 2015-11-20 17:00 GMT+01:00 Py Fave <pyfave at gmail.com>:
>
>> check for FSAA message
>>
>> to send to gemwin before creation
>>
>> arguments depend on the platform you use and on graphics card
>>
>>
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>> 2015-11-19 18:02 GMT+01:00 Thomas WillNot <113781w at acadiau.ca>:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am new to Pure Data, and am having trouble with text display. The
>>> default
>>> display settings are a very small font size and font smoothing is not
>>> handled properly, so if I have my system settings using the "standard"
>>> font
>>> smoothing method, which is to use normal greyscale smoothing at large
>>> point
>>> sizes, then this is not respected. From some research and messing
>>> around, I
>>> have found that the default font is DejaVu sans, which is illegible at
>>> small
>>> sizes and not nice looking or readable unless scaled to 24 point, so I
>>> deleted it from my computer and it's now falling back to Courier thank
>>> goodness.
>>>
>>> I saw there are some font-related command-line options since there is
>>> only a
>>> menu for font size. I have no idea how to run these however. I am
>>> running Pd
>>> on Microsoft Windows.
>>>
>>> In the mean time, I have font smoothing completely disabled system wide,
>>> but
>>> I'd like to turn the standard font smoothing back on again because it is
>>> really essential for a lot of Web sites using nonstandard fonts these
>>> days.
>>>
>>> Using Pd-Extended (since it doesn't bold the font automatically unlike
>>> vanilla Pd) I'd like to change the font to something nice and readable
>>> like
>>> Fixedsys!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>        Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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