[PD] Menlo in MacOS X

Dan Wilcox danomatika at gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 12:43:06 CET 2021


It's an issue with Tk where the font name used in the output doesn't match that used by Postscript. I added a fix for this for DejaVu Sans Mono some years ago, but the quick change to Menlo missed this. I will add a check for Menlo with the find-replace code.

> On Jan 8, 2021, at 11:34 AM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 07:17:00 +0100
> From: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at <mailto:zmoelnig at iem.at>>
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> Am 8. Jänner 2021 02:41:10 MEZ schrieb "Julián Villegas" <villegas.julian at gmail.com <mailto:villegas.julian at gmail.com>>:
>> 
>> For example, would this be worth of opening an issue in
>> GitHub? 
> 
> no.
> i dont think its a "bug" in Pd.
> 
> Pd tries to use "Menlo" on macOS, because it fixes a couple of issues.
> if that font cannot be found, the font engine of your system will automatically use a similar font, eg "Courier".
> the same happens with ghostscript.

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