Font sizes and Ubuntu versions

[Richmond]

On 19/03/14 10:59, William de Smet wrote:
> Hi Richmond,
>
> Could it be that the font names have changed on Xubuntu 12.04? Or the font
> is not present on Xubuntu 12.04?
> I see the same thing when I work with a font and the font is not installed
> on the pc the app is used on.

That's certainly a thought.

I have to go back and look at the original stacks.

What I cannot remember is whether I set the textFont as well as
the textSize.

However, whether the textFont was set or not, I cannot quite work out 
why the textSize is not preserved.

Richmond.

> greetings,
>
> William
>
>
>
>
> 2014-03-19 9:37 GMT+01:00 Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>:
>
>> This may be a bit of a niche problem [a niche consisting of me, myself and
>> I],
>> but problem it is, nevertheless (nice spot of grammatical inversion there):
>>
>> A series of EFL standalones I authored with LC/RR 2.2.1 on Linux about 6/7
>> years ago
>> have been causing me some problems recently.
>>
>> All of those stacks were authored with the textFields set to a fontSize of
>> 24.
>>
>> Until recently I was running the PCs in my school on Edubuntu 7.10 and
>> Ubuntu 8.something, and
>> the textFields were displaying text at size 24.
>>
>> I am gently changing my machines over to Xubuntu 12.04 LTS [and, thanks to
>> the very sound advice from
>> Mark Wieder, putting the 'Home' folder on a separate partition to the
>> 'Root' partition; speeds things up no end].
>>
>> BUT, now those standalones are displaying text at size 10!!!!!
>>
>> This is a PIB to say the least.
>>
>> So, here I am on my "day off" looking at the source stacks and feeling
>> foolish.
>>
>> I have to do ONE thing, which I wonder how to do: and that is to guarantee
>> that the
>> texts will display at size 24.
>>
>> I don't know whether the problem has been because the textSize was set for
>> each stack individually
>> (rather than for either the card or the stack), whether this is something
>> to do with the fact that they
>> contain the 2.2.1 Linux engine (that is easily rectified), or something
>> else.
>>
>> HOWEVER, as these standalones are used to fairly good effect on an almost
>> daily basis I don't want to:
>>
>> 1. Chuck them out.
>>
>> 2. Put all the PCs back to Edubuntu 7.10.
>>
>> 3. Rewrite everything from scratch.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
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