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

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

so, anyway, if the new tk86 is loading Monaco as the font of comments in
vanilla... as it seems I must say, well, it's kinda tinier!


2017-02-12 12:49 GMT-02:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:

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> 2017-02-12 5:52 GMT-02:00 Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com>:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Alex, can you try one of my vanilla builds that uses tk 8.6?
>> http://docs.danomatika.com/pdbuilds/
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>> Since you have Deja Vu installed on the system, it should be picked up
>> automatically (in theory).
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> here's my test, got the tcl/tk86 pd 0.47-1 64 bits version...
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> 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!
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> [image: Imagem inline 1]
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> 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
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> 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.
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> [image: Imagem inline 2]
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