This is my first submission to this mailing list, so I hope I'm not completely in the wrong here. I've searched through all the daily digests that I've received in the past few months, and I couldn't find a single issue about font size or even the general gui bugs that make everything so hard to read. I really like the potential of PD in all of it's areas of exploration, but I can't use it for very long without straining my eyes. Also some times different gui objects and text overlap each other, making it difficult to see what's what, and I have found no way to simply resize (stretch) the canvas. Excuse me if I'm out of order here. I'm not writing this to complain. Is there a solution I don't know about? Is this an issue that's currently being worked on?
John
Hallo, John H hat gesagt: // John H wrote:
This is my first submission to this mailing list, so I hope I'm not completely in the wrong here. I've searched through all the daily digests that I've received in the past few months, and I couldn't find a single issue about font size or even the general gui bugs that make everything so hard to read. I really like the potential of PD in all of it's areas of exploration, but I can't use it for very long without straining my eyes. Also some times different gui objects and text overlap each other, making it difficult to see what's what, and I have found no way to simply resize (stretch) the canvas. Excuse me if I'm out of order here. I'm not writing this to complain. Is there a solution I don't know about? Is this an issue that's currently being worked on?
Getting font sizes right is a long standing issue with Pd. In fact, my very first question to this list about 5 years ago was about the same question as you asked and not much has changed since then. :( The only reliable way to change the font size in plain Pd is to use the FONT BOMB menu you can open with Edit->Font. However different operating systems have different default resolutions so what looks good on Windows doesn't look good on Linux normally (and result in comments stretching into and over objects etc). You can also set the default font size for new patches with the "-font 12" startup option. And then you can select a different font face with "-typeface ..." However fiddling around with all this may make your patches look ugly on other systems.
Ciao
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On Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 11:06:32AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, John H hat gesagt: // John H wrote:
This is my first submission to this mailing list, so I hope I'm not completely in the wrong here. I've searched through all the daily digests that I've received in the past few months, and I couldn't find a single issue about font size or even the general gui bugs that make everything so hard to read. I really like the potential of PD in all of it's areas of exploration, but I can't use it for very long without straining my eyes. Also some times different gui objects and text overlap each other, making it difficult to see what's what, and I have found no way to simply resize (stretch) the canvas. Excuse me if I'm out of order here. I'm not writing this to complain. Is there a solution I don't know about? Is this an issue that's currently being worked on?
the main issue is pd (server) thinks it knows what the font size is after rendering on the client. so you get the overlap and sizing issues since its not using bounding boxes from the client to control positioning. if you just want to deuglify the text, configure Tk with --enable-xft (linux) or set the font to something ClearType (win XP or greater) then change the font. to do this you might still have to find/replace all instances of courier to tahoma in the pd/src/*.{c,tk} files , or maybe the pdsettings mechanism obsoleted this need..
John -
I thought i would try to answer your first post with my own first..
in the build im using (Pd-0.39.2-extended-test4) there is an edit menu (only when a patch window is open) which has a "font" and "tidy up" option. I was glad to find it too.
-brendan
On 2/15/07, John H reveling@gmail.com wrote:
This is my first submission to this mailing list, so I hope I'm not completely in the wrong here. I've searched through all the daily digests that I've received in the past few months, and I couldn't find a single issue about font size or even the general gui bugs that make everything so hard to read. I really like the potential of PD in all of it's areas of exploration, but I can't use it for very long without straining my eyes. Also some times different gui objects and text overlap each other, making it difficult to see what's what, and I have found no way to simply resize (stretch) the canvas. Excuse me if I'm out of order here. I'm not writing this to complain. Is there a solution I don't know about? Is this an issue that's currently being worked on?
John
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The next beta release of Pd-0.39.2-extended will have pretty big
changes in the font sizing, as well as anti-aliasing on Mac OS X.
I'll try to get it out this week.
.hc
On Feb 15, 2007, at 1:11 AM, John H wrote:
This is my first submission to this mailing list, so I hope I'm not
completely in the wrong here. I've searched through all the daily
digests that I've received in the past few months, and I couldn't
find a single issue about font size or even the general gui bugs
that make everything so hard to read. I really like the potential
of PD in all of it's areas of exploration, but I can't use it for
very long without straining my eyes. Also some times different gui
objects and text overlap each other, making it difficult to see
what's what, and I have found no way to simply resize (stretch) the
canvas. Excuse me if I'm out of order here. I'm not writing this to
complain. Is there a solution I don't know about? Is this an issue
that's currently being worked on?John _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ listinfo/pd-list
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