Thanks for these responses on the font/gui issue. These are good references for future developments in this area.<br><br>John<br><br>Frank Barknecht wrote:<br><br>&gt;The only reliable way to change the font size in plain Pd is to use the FONT
<br>&gt;BOMB menu you can open with Edit-&gt;Font. However different operating<br>&gt;systems have different default resolutions so what looks good on<br>&gt;Windows doesn&#39;t look good on Linux normally (and result in comments
<br>&gt;stretching into and over objects etc). You can also set the default<br>&gt;font size for new patches with the &quot;-font 12&quot; startup option.&nbsp;&nbsp;And<br>&gt;then you can select a different font face with &quot;-typeface ...&quot; 
<br><br>carmen wrote:<br><br>&gt;the main issue is pd (server) thinks it knows what the font size is after rendering on the &gt;client. so you get the overlap and sizing issues since its not using bounding boxes from the &gt;client to control positioning. if you just want to deuglify the text, configure Tk with &gt;--enable-xft (linux) or set the font to something ClearType (win XP or greater) then change &gt;the font. to do this you might still have to find/replace all instances of courier to tahoma in &gt;the pd/src/*.{c,tk} files , or maybe the pdsettings mechanism obsoleted this need..
<br><br>&quot;bd pd&quot; wrote:<br><br>&gt;I thought i would try to answer your first post with my own first..<br>&gt;<br>&gt;in the build im using (Pd-0.39.2-extended-test4) there is an edit menu<br>&gt;(only when a patch window is open) which has a &quot;font&quot; and &quot;tidy up&quot;
<br>&gt;option.&nbsp;&nbsp;I was glad to find it too.<br><br>