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From: Miller Puckette msp@ucsd.edu To: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at Cc: pd-dev@iem.at Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [PD-dev] remove tk scaling
What I've never understood is this: why wouldn't it suffice to 'unscale'
just the fonts Pd uses explicitly? One can get an unscaled font by asking for a size like -12 - then we wouldn't have to bash tk_scalaing globally (thereby ruining font sizes in open dialogs and whatnot that Pd doesn't depend on anyhow.)
(the relevant doc is in the "font" manual age for TK; "If size is
a negative number, its absolute value is interpreted as a size in pixels."
That's exactly what Pd does-- I should have said in my previous message I tested patches with 0.44-3 on Debian Wheezy, OSX, and Windows XP. All the iemgui and object fonts must be negative because they are pixel exact whether you use [tk scaling 0.2] or [tk scaling 8].
Furthermore, if someone codes a gui external that doesn't use pixel sizes for fonts to appear on the canvas _and_ they want pixel-exactness, it's a bug, no?
-Jonathan