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

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

2017-02-12 5:52 GMT-02:00 Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com>:

> As a followup after checking pd-gui.tcl, the default font is Deja Vu Sans
> Mono in the find_default_font method, followed buy Bitstream Vera Sands
> Mono, Inconsolata, etc.
>
> The problem is that this method is only called in startup if tk 8.5 is
> being used, as it is right now, the precompiled Vanilla is built using the
> older tk 8.4 Wish app so the font finding method is not used.
>
> Alex, can you try one of my vanilla builds that uses tk 8.6?
> http://docs.danomatika.com/pdbuilds/
>
> Since you have Deja Vu installed on the system, it should be picked up
> automatically (in theory).
>
>

here's my test, got the tcl/tk86 pd 0.47-1 64 bits version...

first thing I notice is that fonts printed in the terminal look different,
there's no warning saying it didnt find DejaVu Sans and loaded something
else as well... the new tcl/tk is the left one, regular vanilla on the
right!


[image: Imagem inline 1]


Onto opening a patch... now, whay I do is I get into the preferences of a
GUI, and if I see DejaVu there, I know it's loaded, but what happened is
that I still found MONACO in the new tcl/tk version

So I even put two labels in canvases to compare them, and, well, the new
tcl/tk renders it pretty well, looks much nicer, I like it. Her'es the
print. Same thing, tk86 on the left, regular on the right.


[image: Imagem inline 2]
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