Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Apr 15, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Ah, okay. I was just encountering these kinds of overlapping comments in some other patches by other people as well so I was fearing, that it might an incompatibility with patches written using pd-extended and us old-school Courier folks.
There are probably also incompatibilities in the patches. There
definitely are size incompatibilities between the new font Pd- extended and other pd versions.
So now there *are* size incompatibilities with Miller's Pd? I'm just asking to be prepared, I don't run the Pd from pd-extended, I prefer a plain MSP-Pd in the latest version.
There are incompatibilities between different versions of Pd (0.38, 0.39, 0.40), and each of those versions different platforms (Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X). This version is the same size to the pixel on each platform. There is, of course, no way that the new sizes could be compatible with all of variations. But I hope you'll agree that this is a better situation.
Of course having Pd look the same on all platforms is a good goal, and Miller also supported this in the past. I'm not against solving this at all. But of course incompatibilities should be kept to a minimum, I hope you'll agree with that. (Besides the OS-issues, no versions of MSP-Pd that I've used, had size-incompatibilities when using the same font.)
I'm just a bit worrind: Now that you've released new fonts into the (pd-extended) wild, there's an additional, new variable to consider with regard to compatibility when going further with font enhancements.
Ciao
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