Howdy Windows peeps,

I wonder if the pdfontloader needs to be recompiled for TK 8.6+. I believe the build distributed with Pd on Windows was built for Tk 8.5.

On Apr 9, 2022, at 12:42 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:

The font detection & loading looks like it's working fine via our custom pdfontloader:


The font on Windows and Linux has always been bold:


What may have changed is how Tk calls the Windows API to do the rendering. I would ask more of a Windows dev about this (Christof, Lucarda, etc).

How does it look if you add "-font-weight normal" to the startup flags and restart Pd? To confirm, the using font line should the change to:

using font: DejaVu Sans Mono normal

Another thing to try: "-font-face Courier" then see if the rendering is better with a native font for the system. If so, this could indicate some issue or change with how we load a local TTF font file.

On Apr 9, 2022, at 12:01 PM, rolfm@dds.nl wrote:

@Dan

i gave you incomplete debug info, should be this:

pdfontloader loaded DejaVuSansMono.ttf
pdfontloader loaded DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf
pdfontloader loaded DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf
pdfontloader loaded DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf
'pd-gui' connecting to 'pd' on localhost 5331 ...
------------------ done with main ----------------------
Tk 8.6.10
detected font: DejaVu Sans Mono
using font: DejaVu Sans Mono bold

rolf


Dan Wilcox schreef op 08-04-2022 13:48:

Turn log level to 4. What is the font debug info printed at start?

On Apr 8, 2022, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

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Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:35:39 +0200
From: rolfm@dds.nl
To: Pd list <pd-list@lists.iem.at>
Subject: [PD] Pd 52.2 different font in console?
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hi, 

i just upgraded from 52.1 to 52.2 on Windows 10. 

i noticed: 

first: text in Pd-console looks much clearer. 

then: in 52.1 (and before(?)) the font in the Pd-console was different
from the one in the patches. 

now in 52.2 the font in the console and in the patches seems the same,
BUT the patches look like having an ugly bold version. 

i was used to that, but of course now i would like to have the same
clear image as in the console. 

rolf

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