Thanks for the response!

What is GEM window and how do I use it?

Thomas "Py Fave" pyfave@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAAQHdpDB3GJCNXS_8+jg45AwiNp4DVxZzh6NCnwv+TDhiVf9kw@mail.gmail.com... sorry i replied too fast .

my answer was for text in GEM window.

2015-11-20 17:00 GMT+01:00 Py Fave pyfave@gmail.com:

check for FSAA message 


to send to gemwin before creation


arguments depend on the platform you use and on graphics card







2015-11-19 18:02 GMT+01:00 Thomas WillNot <113781w@acadiau.ca>:

  Hello,

  I am new to Pure Data, and am having trouble with text display. The default
  display settings are a very small font size and font smoothing is not
  handled properly, so if I have my system settings using the "standard" font
  smoothing method, which is to use normal greyscale smoothing at large point
  sizes, then this is not respected. From some research and messing around, I
  have found that the default font is DejaVu sans, which is illegible at small
  sizes and not nice looking or readable unless scaled to 24 point, so I
  deleted it from my computer and it's now falling back to Courier thank
  goodness.

  I saw there are some font-related command-line options since there is only a
  menu for font size. I have no idea how to run these however. I am running Pd
  on Microsoft Windows.

  In the mean time, I have font smoothing completely disabled system wide, but
  I'd like to turn the standard font smoothing back on again because it is
  really essential for a lot of Web sites using nonstandard fonts these days.

  Using Pd-Extended (since it doesn't bold the font automatically unlike
  vanilla Pd) I'd like to change the font to something nice and readable like
  Fixedsys!

  Thanks,
         Thomas




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The problem is that DejaVu Sans Mono is only readable if you have a super high-resolution screen and/or ClearType or some font smoothing enabled, neither of which I have or want or should be necessary to view text. I now have it working with Courier, and it's not smoothing everything anymore thankfully, but I would like to be able to change to something nicer like Fixedsys perhaps!

So I'm assuming GEM is the main window that opens when you normally open Pd? I tried typing "-font-size 24" into the text box labelled "Tcl" and it replied with: (Tcl) INVALID COMMAND NAME: invalid command name "-font-size" while executing "-font-size 23" ("uplevel" body line 1) invoked from within "uplevel #0 $tclentry"

I must be doing something wrong!

Thanks, Thomas "Py Fave" pyfave@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAAQHdpDW5avZVHSTsfgjrxKgV+3EXPiBPRNYNtRxmVDZ1UM3qQ@mail.gmail.com... on my system font is DejaVu Sans Mono

i find it readable

GEM is an extension of pd , made for opengl

graphics.

it drives a separate window from pd's interface.

it's in pd-extended, or available here

https://puredata.info/downloads/gem

2015-11-25 3:04 GMT+01:00 Thomas WillNot 113781w@acadiau.ca:

Thanks for the response!

What is GEM window and how do I use it?

Thomas
  "Py Fave" <pyfave@gmail.com> wrote in message news:CAAQHdpDB3GJCNXS_8+jg45AwiNp4DVxZzh6NCnwv+TDhiVf9kw@mail.gmail.com...
  sorry i replied too fast .


  my answer was for text in GEM window.



  2015-11-20 17:00 GMT+01:00 Py Fave <pyfave@gmail.com>:

    check for FSAA message 


    to send to gemwin before creation


    arguments depend on the platform you use and on graphics card







    2015-11-19 18:02 GMT+01:00 Thomas WillNot <113781w@acadiau.ca>:

      Hello,

      I am new to Pure Data, and am having trouble with text display. The default
      display settings are a very small font size and font smoothing is not
      handled properly, so if I have my system settings using the "standard" font
      smoothing method, which is to use normal greyscale smoothing at large point
      sizes, then this is not respected. From some research and messing around, I
      have found that the default font is DejaVu sans, which is illegible at small
      sizes and not nice looking or readable unless scaled to 24 point, so I
      deleted it from my computer and it's now falling back to Courier thank
      goodness.

      I saw there are some font-related command-line options since there is only a
      menu for font size. I have no idea how to run these however. I am running Pd
      on Microsoft Windows.

      In the mean time, I have font smoothing completely disabled system wide, but
      I'd like to turn the standard font smoothing back on again because it is
      really essential for a lot of Web sites using nonstandard fonts these days.

      Using Pd-Extended (since it doesn't bold the font automatically unlike
      vanilla Pd) I'd like to change the font to something nice and readable like
      Fixedsys!

      Thanks,
             Thomas




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Am 27. November 2015 04:06:35 MEZ, schrieb Thomas WillNot 113781w@acadiau.ca:

I tried typing "-font-size 24" into the text box labelled "Tcl"

Ouch, no.

That (and my previous answer) are cmdline flags you need to pass to Pd on startup...either by running pd from the cli or by adding the flags to the preferences.

mfg.ugd.fhj IOhannes

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