Thanks for these responses on the font/gui issue. These are good references
for future developments in this area.
John
Frank Barknecht wrote:
>The only reliable way to change the font size in plain Pd is to use the
FONT
>BOMB menu you can open with Edit->Font. However different operating
>systems have different default resolutions so what looks good on
>Windows doesn't look good on Linux normally (and result in comments
>stretching into and over objects etc). You can also set the default
>font size for new patches with the "-font 12" startup option. And
>then you can select a different font face with "-typeface ..."
carmen wrote:
>the main issue is pd (server) thinks it knows what the font size is after
rendering on the >client. so you get the overlap and sizing issues since its
not using bounding boxes from the >client to control positioning. if you
just want to deuglify the text, configure Tk with >--enable-xft (linux) or
set the font to something ClearType (win XP or greater) then change >the
font. to do this you might still have to find/replace all instances of
courier to tahoma in >the pd/src/*.{c,tk} files , or maybe the pdsettings
mechanism obsoleted this need..
"bd pd" wrote:
>I thought i would try to answer your first post with my own first..
>
>in the build im using (Pd-0.39.2-extended-test4) there is an edit menu
>(only when a patch window is open) which has a "font" and "tidy up"
>option. I was glad to find it too.