On May 19, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Josh Steiner wrote:
hy not make a vote? Attached are two screenshots, one with Vera
bold, one with Vera normal, both on Linux, both on pd-extended 0.40.
Which do you prefer?
[ ] normal.png [ ] bold.png
- i vote normal, the bold looks way too heavy to me. reading the
comment text in bold makes my eyes spaz.
Yeah, things look bad in those screenshots. I am not sure of
Frank's setup. I'll do more testing on GNU/Linux. Also, those
PNGs are an odd format (16bit?) so they were behaving strangely
on my computer. I converted them to gifs and they look better.
Also, I have added some screenshots from Mac OS X, where the
fonts are anti-aliased:*File not found!*
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reached this in error.Since there is obviously some demand for bold fonts, I added a
new flag that allows you to set the font weight from the command
line or pd-settings file. The flag is "-weight" and it expects
either "bold" or "normal". Also, for those who don't like
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, there is the "-typeface" flag. Should
be in tomorrows auto- builds.won't this make the patches render at different sizes depending on
your choice of font? so now if i want to open frank's GOP patchs
and have them render right i have to remember to turn on the bold
flag, which then makes all my patches render wrong?
Well, ideally the font info would be embedded in the patch, like in
Max/MSP. For this release, the box sizes are pegged to pixel sizes,
so no matter what font you use, the boxes will be the same size.
Also, the area that is the clickable area of the font will be the same.
This means that fonts that are quite a bit different than bitstream
vera sans mono will look really bad. If they are bigger, the text
will run out of the boxes. If they are smaller, then there will be a
lot of blank space in the boxes.
So it's not great, but it's a step in the right direction.
.hc
-josh
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