[PD] Pd 52.2 different font in console?

[Dan Wilcox]

Howdy Windows peeps,

I wonder if the pdfontloader needs to be recompiled for TK 8.6+. I believe the build distributed with Pd on Windows was built for Tk 8.5.

> On Apr 9, 2022, at 12:42 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The font detection & loading looks like it's working fine via our custom pdfontloader:
> 
> https://github.com/pure-data/pdfontloader <https://github.com/pure-data/pdfontloader>
> 
> The font on Windows and Linux has always been bold:
> 
> https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/font/README.txt#L33 <https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/font/README.txt#L33>
> 
> What may have changed is how Tk calls the Windows API to do the rendering. I would ask more of a Windows dev about this (Christof, Lucarda, etc).
> 
> How does it look if you add "-font-weight normal" to the startup flags and restart Pd? To confirm, the using font line should the change to:
> 
> using font: DejaVu Sans Mono normal
> 
> Another thing to try: "-font-face Courier" then see if the rendering is better with a native font for the system. If so, this could indicate some issue or change with how we load a local TTF font file.
> 
>> On Apr 9, 2022, at 12:01 PM, rolfm at dds.nl <mailto:rolfm at dds.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> @Dan
>> 
>> i gave you incomplete debug info, should be this:
>> 
>> pdfontloader loaded DejaVuSansMono.ttf
>> pdfontloader loaded DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf
>> pdfontloader loaded DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf
>> pdfontloader loaded DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf
>> 'pd-gui' connecting to 'pd' on localhost 5331 ...
>> ------------------ done with main ----------------------
>> Tk 8.6.10
>> detected font: DejaVu Sans Mono
>> using font: DejaVu Sans Mono bold
>> 
>> rolf
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dan Wilcox schreef op 08-04-2022 13:48:
>> 
>>> Turn log level to 4. What is the font debug info printed at start?
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 8, 2022, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list-request at lists.iem.at> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Message: 1
>>>> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:35:39 +0200
>>>> From: rolfm at dds.nl <mailto:rolfm at dds.nl>
>>>> To: Pd list <pd-list at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list at lists.iem.at>>
>>>> Subject: [PD] Pd 52.2 different font in console?
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>>>> hi, 
>>>> 
>>>> i just upgraded from 52.1 to 52.2 on Windows 10. 
>>>> 
>>>> i noticed: 
>>>> 
>>>> first: text in Pd-console looks much clearer. 
>>>> 
>>>> then: in 52.1 (and before(?)) the font in the Pd-console was different
>>>> from the one in the patches. 
>>>> 
>>>> now in 52.2 the font in the console and in the patches seems the same,
>>>> BUT the patches look like having an ugly bold version. 
>>>> 
>>>> i was used to that, but of course now i would like to have the same
>>>> clear image as in the console. 
>>>> 
>>>> rolf
>>> 
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