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

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 02:35:33 CET 2017


same with "-font-weigth normal"



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2017-02-11 22:38 GMT-02:00 Lucas Cordiviola <lucarda27 at hotmail.com>:

> *>>Yes:*
>
>
> *>>Apparently the cross-plataform issue is because OSX only handle fonts
> with no spaces in its name.*
>
>
> *>not at all, this is not in the account of OSX... I can use DejaVu Sans
> Mono in all other softwares but Pd Vanilla, so this is in Pd's account,
> sorry…*
>
>
> I understand your misunderstanding, I ment that Pd on OSX cant open fonts
> with spaces in its name. & this is related also to tk/tcl.
>
> *>and, also, purr data loads dejavu sans in Mac OS*
>
>
> Yes, because of the CSS “@font-face ”, which in turn allows web browsers
> to load fonts “on the fly” which can be stored anywhere and not need to be
> installed on the OS.
>
> *>well... not sure if something important was clear enough, let me say
> again, in windows, Pd Extended came and loaded DejaVu Sans Mono!*
>
>
> Yes, C`mon Alex. The font was installed via the installer. I used it since
> 2006 on win xp.
>
>
>
> *>So, check it out... vanilla in windows complained for the lack of DejaVu
> Sans Mono, then I installed Extended and it was using DejaVu, so I reopen
> Vanilla and now it finds it.*
>
>
> Yes, you could also have installed just the font instead of installing
> extended.
>
> *>This to me makes it seem it's totally possible for Pd to ship and load
> fonts accordingly, but that's not all…*
>
>
> Yes, if you use an installer. (at least on mswindows)
>
> *>In Extended, the font still looks ok and nice, it doesn't corrupt the
> visuals in the patch, it's only in vanilla that things get screwed up*
>
>
> *>here, let me show you 2 print screens, a patch in Extended that looks a
> lot like the Mac Os version with Monaco, that looks also reasonably the
> same as Purr Data in every platform, and how vanilla in windows with dejavu
> sans got screwy... in the same way as in linux…*
>
>
> Retry using dejavu but with “-font-weight normal” on Pd`s startupflags.
> And resize font to 10. I cant remember which was extended default font size.
>
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> Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas.
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