Fonts

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Peter,

The difference in availability of font sizes is a coincidence,  
although it would probably be much more of a coincidence if the  
available font sizes would have been the same. The person who created  
the property inspector simply had a view different from the person  
who created the menu bar. It would be a good thing if RR Ltd could  
pay attention to this kind of details.

There isn't really "too large a font". What exactly are you doing,  
choosing a font or a size? Is there anything special about the font  
you choose, is it a truetype font or could it be an old bitmap font?  
Does this problem occur with all fonts?

To find out which fonts are available to Revolution, type "put the  
fontnames" in the messge box and type enter. Is there anything  
special about the fonts that are not included in the list returned by  
the fontnames?

Revolution doesn't come with its own fonts. As a default font, it  
uses Geneva on Mac OS Classic, Lucida Grande on Mac OS X and Arial on  
Windows. I can imagine that your Linux distribution doesn't include  
the font that Revolution wants to use as the default font. It might  
be picking an alternative, but if it does, it may display sizes and  
styles incorrectly. E.g. if the font of an object has been set to  
Lucida Grande, while this font is unavailable under Windows,  
Revolution will always display a 12 points text size instead of the  
text size that you specified.

I don't have a clear-cut solution for you, but I hope this helps you  
to track down the problem.

Best,

Mark

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Op 17-dec-2006, om 9:45 heeft Peter Alcibiades het volgende geschreven:

> Hi.  Hope this is not too silly a question.
>
> Does Revolution use the system fonts, or does it ship with its own,  
> and if so,
> where are they?  And if it uses system fonts, where does it expect  
> to find
> them?  There are three reasons for asking.
> (1) When you create (eg) a button, the font sizes offered from the  
> properties
> dialogue are fewer than those offered from the text menu, and fewer  
> than
> those offered by other applications.  But they do at least all work.
> (2) From the text menu, there is a larger choice of sizes, but not  
> all the
> sizes you can pick actually work - if you pick too large a font, it  
> reverts
> to a standard small point one.
> (3) In any case, the fonts offered are in both cases far fewer than  
> those
> installed on the system, and fewer than those all the other  
> applications make
> available with no problems or configuration.
>
> The Revolution program folder doesn't seem to have any fonts in it,  
> and I
> can't find anything in the documentation about where it looks or  
> how to set
> where it looks for fonts.
>
> This is 2.6.1 (Linux) running on Etch AMD64.  Am I missing something
> blindingly obvious?
>
> Regards
>
> Peter