[PD] cross platforms issues with displaying fonts in vanilla but not in Purr Data

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

it's weird how mac os loads "Monaco" by default, but then if you try to
give it a flag for another font it doesnt find, it prints the warning, font
"x" not found, using (courier) instead...

why doesn't it use monaco instead? or why doesn't it load courier instead
of monaco?

in windows, it prints the warning it tried searching for deja vu sans mono
but didnt find, then it loaded courier by default instead.

seems reasonable to me that in Mac Os it'd happen the same, it's try to
search for Deja Vu, then it wouldn't find it (unless the user installed
it), and then it'd load courier instead.

there's gotta be something different in the build system for mac os, right?

cheers

2017-02-11 1:40 GMT-02:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:

> it's gotta be some trick I dont know on how to load a font that has more
> than one word in its name...
>
> 2017-02-11 1:25 GMT-02:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:
>
>> and this is to show that I'm being able to load some weird fonts in it :)
>>
>> [image: Imagem inline 1]
>>
>> 2017-02-11 1:16 GMT-02:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> ok, made some progress, I did screw up in the flag, but now I'm using it
>>> right, I just can't seem to get "DejaVu Sans Mono" called, it's loading
>>> courier instead [image: Imagem inline 1]
>>>
>>> 2017-02-11 1:07 GMT-02:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> so, installed "deja vu sans mono" in my mac... tried using the flag -font-face
>>>> <name>
>>>>
>>>> nothing happened, just got an error that proved I may not have used the
>>>> flag right, what should I do?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2017-02-10 20:42 GMT-02:00 Lucas Cordiviola <lucarda27 at hotmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>>>
>>>>> *>I just hoped we could make vanilla laod the same fonts in all
>>>>> platforms and that patches would all look the same as in Purr Data, what's
>>>>> preventing it from happening?*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> To put it fast and dirty but not incorrect:
>>>>>
>>>>> Purr Data uses web-browser technology to do the GUI. Basically a
>>>>> Chrome browser. That’s why you see that fonts are rendered the same across
>>>>> Oss.
>>>>>
>>>>> Check NW.js:
>>>>> https://nwjs.io/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On the other hand, it sounds that you are saying that if a vanilla
>>>>> patch does not look as how you see it in your Mac is “bad”.
>>>>>
>>>>> Vanilla is not shipping “deja vu sans mono”,
>>>>> Can you give screen-shots with this font installed on your Mac?
>>>>> May be your patches render the same as Linux & Windows.
>>>>>
>>>>> And remember the startup flags:
>>>>>
>>>>> -font-size <n>     -- specify default font size in points
>>>>> -font-face <name>  -- specify default font
>>>>> -font-weight <name>-- specify default font weight (normal or bold)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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