ok,
i've got/know only windows machines... i can make *FON files for windows... i can also make *FNT and *BDF files... so i KNOW how to make bitmapfonts for windows. but i've never made/used fonts @ mac/linux.... so, i would need help "compiling" to mac/linux format...
*FON file contains several FNT files so it can contain several size versions of the character. (and its the bitmap font format used by win32). *FNT file is a set of bitmap characters of 1 ascii table so it contains only 1 size version of the character. *BDF file, as far as i know is a bitmapfont for x windows (similar to FNT)
i still need to KNOW 100% what format(s) mac/linux reads as bitmapfonts... and how they are installed... any info people ?
but in windows installing is easy, just copy the font to windows/fonts. and to uninstall, just delete from windows/fonts...
...
but if some1 came with an idea for NOT using fonts by OS "font display driver" then we could use only 1 file for any OS :)
cheers -andre
----- Original Message ----- From: "Miller Puckette" mpuckett@man104-1.ucsd.edu To: "Andre Schmidt" andre@vju.info Cc: msp@ucsd.edu; "PD-LiST" pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [PD] test24 box size
Hi Andre,
I haven't looked closely enough at your proposal... are you saying it's possible to make screen fonts which wil work the same on any OS? That
would
be the cat's meow if it's doable!
cheers Miller
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 06:14:23PM +0200, Andre Schmidt wrote:
hi miller,
as i said before i would LOVE to do fontz for PD. they would be BITMAP
fonts
so they would be better to calculate !!!
the attachment is a test that i've made today... (pd0.35-test23)
left; my "new courier new" bitmap 6x11pix middle; my fav "noname" bitmap 6x11pix right; original ms "courier new" truetype 10pt
cheers -andre btw. is that a dumm idea to make numbers bold ?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Miller Puckette" mpuckett@man104-1.ucsd.edu To: "Krzysztof Czaja" czaja@chopin.edu.pl Cc: "Andre Schmidt" andre@vju.info; "PD-LiST" pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [PD] test24 box size
OK... actually I was trying to save a couple of pixels to make
everything
a
bit more compact. But it seems this was misguided.
I don't know to what extent one can count on font metrics either... I suppose I'll just have to try this.
cheers Miller
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:57:43PM +0200, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
hi Andre... and Miller,
I am getting the same result with out-of-the-box courier font!
The change in test24 is to have the top margin in object boxes, i.e. the top border/text separation (#defined as TMARGIN in g_rtext.c), one pixel high, instead of three pixel as in the previous versions. Apparently this is an attempt to somehow unify the look of text objects, atoms and nbxes...
Well, what I think is this. There should be two pixels of top margin (an extra pixel for the inlets), and perhaps a bit more flexible dealing with the bottom margin in gatoms -- symbol gatom need to be spaced just like any text object box (two pixels of bottom margin), while number gatoms need to subtract -descent value taken from the font metrics and add the 2-pixel margins, instead of using full -linespace plus 1-pixel top and 0-pixel bottom margins.
But maybe I should keep quiet, because I have no idea whether one can actually rely on values returned by "font metrics" command...?
Krzysztof
Andre Schmidt wrote: ...
i was designing a minifont for pd [fontmatrix 5x7pixel] as i
updated
to
pd0.35-test24 i saw this... please, make the boxes how they where
!
because (ms)courier font has much empty space [hardcoded] over
the
font
it's not so noticable as with this font...