Hi Dan,
Note, I’ve added DejaVu Sans Mono to a “font” folder in the dejavu branch.
On windows I noticed huge differences & trouble placing only “DejaVuSansMono.ttf”
These 2 have to be included:
DejaVuSansMono.ttf DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf
Can you test on Mac ?
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From: Pd-list pd-list-bounces@lists.iem.at on behalf of Dan Wilcox danomatika@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 7:35 PM To: Roman Haefeli Cc: Pd-List Subject: Re: [PD] Cross-platform uniform GUI rendering of patches.
On Feb 22, 2017, at 1:41 AM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.atmailto:pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:
The primary goal is to make Pd(-vanilla)'s appearance consistent across platforms. Part of that is that box sizes don't change when switching platforms. As a side effect of this fix, patches also don't change appearance when switching between Pd flavors (Do we still need to care about Pd-extended, since it's been phased out?).
From what I gathered from the "Pd Metrics on Xubuntu 16 04 02 LTS"
thread, the following steps are required to achieve that goal:
Adjustments of the font metrics. It seems we can just take the ones from Pd-extended.
Use the same font on all platforms. Pd apparently looks for "DejaVu Sans Mono" first, so that is the one we should make available everywhere.
I’d suggest joining in the “dejavu” branch on Github: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/42
On Linux, it's the task of Pd's package maintainers that DejaVu is installed when Pd is to be installed. If I'm not mistaken, DejaVu is installed per default on all Debian derivatives, so we do not have to care about them.
Yup
On Windows, the font is missing and the Pd installer could be adapted to install the font along with Pd.
That would be the easiest solution. A more complicated but perhaps better solution is to load the font locally when running the GUI.
On macOS, I don’t know what the required steps would be.
I’ve already provided them in the branch. This is working for Mac.
I propose that before we submit any fixes to Miller we are absolutely certain that the adapted font metrics are correct in that the resulting box sizes are consistent for all available font sizes (8, 10, 12, 16, 24, 36). And when testing this, we make sure that Pd uses "DejaVu Sans Mono". Only then we submit any fix.
Yes. Testing has already been happening see: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/wiki/Crossplatform-font-metrics-%26-c...https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/wiki/Crossplatform-font-metrics-&-comparisons
If we find good font metrics, I'll submit a fix to the NSIS installer script, so that installing DejaVu is part of the Pd installation process on Windows. Yet, I'm not sure whether it is enough to simply drop the font files into %windir%\Fonts or whether the font needs to be registered somewhere.
Note, I’ve added DejaVu Sans Mono to a “font” folder in the dejavu branch.
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