Table Text Livecode vs .....

[Marty Knapp]

On Windows could the “formatForPrinting” property be effecting this? Windows apparently uses different fonts for screen display vs printing.

Marty

> On Dec 17, 2019, at 12:51 PM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> I ran into something similar in Windows, but also something other...
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> I wanted to use a BarcodeFont, in my case 2of5i,  in a Windows application i´ve created with LC.
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> When i displayed a barcode in the Windows text editor, the barcode was displayed correctly. Even when i increased or decreased the font size, the barcode was correctly displayed. The black and blank narrow and wide bars showed all the correct size.
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> When i did the same in an LC field, the same barcode was also displayed, but the wide and narrow black bars and the spaces were not correct in size. The proportion of some of the black bars and the blank spaces were not correct. When i changed the font size, then other bars and spaces showed this behaviour.
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> I did not file a bug report, as i was not sure, if this really was a bug. Is LC using native text fields in Windows?
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> To get finished i went another way and used a barcode sdk which creates images of the barcode. But that´s an other story. ;)
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> Matthias
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> Matthias Rebbe
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>> Am 17.12.2019 um 20:23 schrieb Terence Heaford via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>:
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>> Firstly I have an iMac, none retina.
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>> 1. Just checked Pages & Numbers and they both appear similar to LC.
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>> 2. Then checked TextEdit and that appears the same as Filemaker.
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>> The rendering of the text in Filemaker & TextEdit appears to my poor eyesight to be more black (if that is possible).
>> My poor eyesight is the reason I notice this in the first place, because I have the same database in both LC & Filemaker.
>> I prefer the scripting of LC to Filemaker but the display of the same table is much clearer in Filemaker for the same font (more blackness).
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>> Perhaps there is an anti alias setting or such like, that has not been implemented in LC.
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>> If so it would be good to get that option?
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>> There used to be (not sure if it’s there now) a terminal command
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>> defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
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>> and probably others for this sort of thing. Perhaps they have to be implemented in app.
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>> Thanks
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>> Terry
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>>> On 17 Dec 2019, at 17:54, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
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>>> 9.5.1 RC1
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>>>> On Dec 17, 2019, at 09:14 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
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>>>> What version of LiveCode are you using.
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>>>> Older releases did not support the Retina display, but newer releases do.
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