I was about to write about the same font problems for the release candidate on fedoras 9 and 10 -- it finds bitstream vera just fine, but the fonts stick out of the boxes in the same way. If this is because of Tcl/Tk 8.5, that's not going to be an easy one to fix, since Fedora's moved ahead with 8.5 -- maybe it's possible to install an 8.4 compat version. Either way, the current fedora/ccrma nightly builds are against 8.5.

PS In Pd-extended on fedora 8 the bitstream vera font is not found (I posted on this several months ago)... F8 doesn't have tcl/tk 8.5 so newer binaries don't work. At any rate, I haven't found a solution to this one... maybe I'll try adding a symbolic link in the path listed in the source file.

Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:01:32 -0400 From: Hector Centeno hcengar@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.41.4 release candidate 1 To: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at Cc: Pd List pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Message-ID:        695e1a650905141801k403cb7d1x40cf866d22e48b97@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

OK, it seems that I got it to build in OpenSuse 11.1 and it seems that it was much less effort than when I did it on OpenSuse 11. I only had to hack one of the make files (the one for tclpd). Now the problems I'm having are:

PiDiP : additional video processing objects for PDP        version 0.12.23 ( ydegoyon@free.fr ) error: [pdp_text] error: could not load default font, no text rendering!        install Bitstream Vera, it's free! (http://www.gnome.org/fonts/) error: [pdp_qtext] error: could not load default font, no text rendering!        install Bitstream Vera, it's free! (http://www.gnome.org/fonts/)

I have Bitstream Vera installed in /usr/share/fonts/truetype, do I have to copy them somewhere else?

Also the font in in the pd gui is too big so the text entered inside the objects doesn't fit inside the object boxes.

Once I have this things sorted out I will post in the pd wiki a short review about building pd in OpenSuse including a list of required packages.