[PD] Pd 52.2 different font in console?

[Dan Wilcox]

Ok thanks for checking. I wrote the TCL extension some 4 years ago now and haven’t looked at it since. It’s very simple so I would be surprised if the behavior changed.

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Dan Wilcox
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> On Apr 10, 2022, at 1:05 AM, Lucas Cordiviola <lucarda27 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> @Dan
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> pdfontloader is working ok for our needs. We have the following:
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> `pure-data/msw/pdprototype.tgz` has an "tcl/tk-85-i386" dll
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> and 
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> `pure-data/msw/pdfontloader-64bit-for-wish86.zip` has an "tcl/tk-86-amd64" dll
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> They get extracted accordingly on Miller's builds. It also works when building Pd with autotools that gets the i386:(wish85.exe tclsh85.exe) from `pdprototype.tgz`
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>> On 09/04/2022 07:46, Dan Wilcox wrote:
>> 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
>>> 
>>> The font on Windows and Linux has always been bold:
>>> 
>>> 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 wrote:
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>>>> @Dan
>>>> 
>>>> i gave you incomplete debug info, should be this:
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>>>> 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:
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>>>>> 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 wrote:
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>>>>>> Message: 1
>>>>>> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:35:39 +0200
>>>>>> From: rolfm at dds.nl
>>>>>> To: Pd list <pd-list at lists.iem.at>
>>>>>> Subject: [PD] Pd 52.2 different font in console?
>>>>>> Message-ID: <f1c508c0d87b465501c62d30662a23fe at dds.nl>
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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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>>>>> robotcowboy.com
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