[PD] A quick question - a bug or me?

[Dan Wilcox]

You can set the font using -font-family on the command line. Also, I wouldn’t take that approach as Pd packages on Linux distros *should* have DejaVu Sans Mono as a dependency. If they don’t, the problem lies with the packaging and not with Pd.

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Dan Wilcox
danomatika.com
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> On Jan 28, 2022, at 3:04 PM, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay <tremblap at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Oh this is good - now I presume many other patches one someone’s machine will look awful if their Linux doesn’t find the font, so I shouldn’t feel too bad. I’ll make sure they look decent with what I can expect from v0.48
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> Thanks!
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>> On 28 Jan 2022, at 13:32, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Check the actual font used by setting Log level 4 All and compare "detected font" with "using font." On Linux, Pd doesn't include the font itself, so it relies on DVSM being installed to the system and Tk finding it when the GUI opens. If it can't find DVSM, it reverts to a series of backup fonts starting with the old default of Courier. 
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>>>> On Jan 28, 2022, at 1:11 PM, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay <tremblap at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> The result is that if you make a patch on one system with the standard font and open it on another with the same or ver similar (macOS)-sized font, the rendering should be very close.
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>>> It was close enough indeed, except on Ubuntu 18 which makes a complete mess. It might be on my side too.
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