[self-interest] New build of Self snapshot: Self-4.5.prealpha-15Sep11

[Russell Allen]

Hi,

On 16/09/2011, at 5:21 PM, Ankh'nAton wrote:

> the ugly truetype fonts in Linux come from not being anti aliased.
> 
Worse, our default font is actually bitmap and not truetype...  We're defaulting to 6x13 when we can't find anything else because its almost the only font I can guarantee will be available on all distros.

> Why not
> use abstract fonts like labelFont, menuFont, buttonFont, textFont and let
> another layer translate them to Verdana,Arial,Helvetica, "Times New Roman",
> Times, Courier and what have you? I like the idea of the outlinerPreferences
> but thats only half the way, isn't it?
> 
Yep. I'm gradually moving settings over to a single place. So keep posted and things will get easier.

> In my particular case I replaced all occurences of "verdana" with
> "helvetica" and increased all fonts by 2pts. Also I replaced all "9x13" with
> "Courier 14". Now it looks ok and is more readable on my 1920x1080 screen.
> 
So helvetica is working for you? What distro and version are you using? And what if any extra font packages have you installed?

- Russell


> 
> Regards...
> 
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