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> On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 3:19 PM, katja <katjavetter@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Silly me, I forgot this is Pd so it has to be way more complex than
>> that...
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>> Add this line to pdtk_text_new in pdtk_text.tcl:
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>> pdtk_post "the actual font we are sending to tk is: [get_font_for_size
>> $font_size]\n"
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>> Now do the test I mentioned before.
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> The answer is in both cases:
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> "the actual font we are sending to tk is: ::pd_font_10"
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>> -Jonathan
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>> On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 2:16 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
>> <pd-list@lists.iem.at> wrote:
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>> Hi katja,
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>> Could you do a test?  Make a simple patch with a single object in it, and
>> use the same canvas font size you did above.  Then run Pd with -d 3 flag
>> and
>> see what font size is actually being sent from Pd to the GUI on each
>> distro.
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>> -Jonathan
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>> On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 12:28 PM, katja <katjavetter@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> A particular font size issue can be observed in vanilla Pd and package
>> puredata on Raspbian Wheezy and Jessie: font size 10 is larger for
>> object boxes, message boxes and comments than for IEM guis (bang,
>> toggle, slider, radio button, canvas). Object/message/comment
>> characters are too large in number of pixels. When Edit > Font > Font
>> Size is set to 8, their size is identical to IEM gui font size 10.
>> This inconsistency does not happen for me on Xubuntu. A test patch and
>> two screenshots are attached for illustration.
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>> For IEM guis, font size 10 translates to 6 pixels per character on
>> both systems, given the default font type DejaVu Sans Mono. For object
>> boxes, message boxes and comments, font size 10 is 6 pixels on Xubuntu
>> and almost 7 pixels on Raspbian.
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>> I don't know if this issue is related to font size effects on Windows
>> as described by Roman in another thread. In any case, consequences are
>> similar: patches created on Xubuntu tend to look messy on Raspbian,
>> sometimes with overlapping texts. With XFCE (Xubuntu's default desktop
>> environment) installed on Raspbian the issue still persists. Custom
>> dpi setting has no effect on Pd. What else might cause the difference
>> in behavior on those systems?
>>
>> Katja
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