Roman Haefeli wrote:
someone please correct me, if i am wrong, but i think, that pd is not aware of font-pathes. the very few times i had to deal with fonts and
afaik the fonts findable by Gem, pdp and other libs and the fonts findable by Pd itself are 2 different things.
Gem for instance manually opens fonts and it does so via Pd's open-via-path feature (which searches all the searchpaths). if the specified font (file) does not exist, it will not display anything.
Pd otoh, does not use fonts at all, rather it asks(!) its graphical toolkit (tcl/tk) to use a certain font which delegates this request to the system. if the requested font is not available, the system will (or should) provide a font that is reasonable close.
so Pd should automatically find bitstream-vera-sans-mono file if it exists on the system.
but of course this is does not help with the initial problem.
btw. here the font-file is located at /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraMono.ttf. but since i usually don't use Pd-extended (and don't have it installed right now) i am not sure whether PdX would really find it (though afair i never had a problem)
fgamrd IOhannes