Thanks for these responses on the font/gui issue. These are good references for future developments in this area.

John

Frank Barknecht wrote:

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 ..."

carmen wrote:

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..

"bd pd" wrote:

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.