Woo hoo!!!!
Miller, how does PD size object boxes?
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Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Duh, why didn't I remember the -10 thing. Anyway, I tried that, and it does indeed work! The font sizes are very similar in size on Windows and Mac OS X. But now the problem is that the boxes on Mac OS X a being created too large. I think that this shouldn't be too hard to figure out, it might just be a matter of replacing all of the Xwindows font specs with { courier -12 bold } Tk-style font specs.
It would be great to get this into the upcoming Pd-extended release.
.hc
On Nov 28, 2005, at 10:38 AM, B. Bogart wrote:
hmmm, and did you try with the -10 pixel based font size?
if the pixel (width) of the font is known then it would be easy to scale the object box based on the number of characters/spaces.
Is that how this how it works now Miller?
Should be easy to adapt that code to work with a consistant font.
Good work Hans!
b.
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think I found something: if you change the fontspec from Xwindows style ( -*-courier-bold--normal--10-) to standard Tk style { courier 10 bold }, then it looks like the fonts are the same size on MacOSX and Windows. But then, the only problem is that the object boxes don't adjust, and are too short for the object text.
It actually swings it the other way, with the same font being bigger on Windows than on OSX.
.hc
On Nov 26, 2005, at 3:37 PM, carmen wrote:
I don't see how the point size will be somehow different in aspect ratio from the pixel size?
why point/pixel sizes at all? for years the way to specify a font size for web is in "em" units. 1.0em 0.8em etc..
If courier 12 is say 10pixels wide then it should be identical to courier -10 visually, since the aspect *should* be the same.
even a 12 point font can be different on the same platform depending on which DPI you launched your X server at, which toolkit you are using, etc..
Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by the "at least three dimensions to a font size"?
id say theres at least 4... platform, dpi, font, fontsize
The font issue is really a stumbling block for trying to make anything look constant accross platforms. The current PD documentation is a great example of this, where, depending on the platform, many help-patches open with overlapping messages/comments. :(
how about a scalable canvas with a client-side algo to make sure nothing overlaps? something like http://whats-your.name/pd/chokun.png but with less ugly colours?
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