Re: [PD] font issues/questions, and also discrepancies between operating systems

On 1/24/20 3:38 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:

Hi, I've been updating and fixing cyclone/comment and I realized Pd loads similar but different fonts depending on the operating system.

before you investigate on what Pd might possibly do wrong, please consider (and answer) the following questions:

• how do wide-spread text editing applications (e.g. MS/Open/Libre

Office) handle this?

• how do even more wide-spread text reading applications (browsers)

handle this?

• how do graphic applications (e.g. photoshop/gimp) handle this?
• how do typesetting applications (e.g. Indesign/Illustratur/Inkscape)

handle this?

test all of them on multiple platforms and multiple installations of each platform (as used by real people; not just pristine installations).

can you name a reference application that handles fonts "correctly"? what does this reference application do to achieve this?

mgfr IOhannes