Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

[Sean Cole (Pi)]

Hi Richmond, buddy.

The font IS embedded. Not a problem using the font itself. It is the same
physical font on the two platforms. That's not what I'm asking when you
read past paragraph one.

HowTF do you get them to show up in the same 'fin place though (ie, the
pixel placement of the text itself, baseline, etc) from one platform to the
next?

Looking at the images and reading the request properly first before
commenting always helps. ;)

--

Side note follow up:
put fontstyles("Arial",0) - Put that in Windows and Mac messagebox and get
two different results -- MIND BLOWN! It's 2020 people. This was solved back
in the 70's, wasn't it? Who's overcomplicating this?

>From Livecode.com landing page:

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'CODE ONCE!' (With a billion workarounds to make it display the same across
platforms).

Not exactly what it says on the tin, is it!?!

Sean Cole
*Pi Digital *

On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 22:38, Richmond via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> How about embedding your fonts in the standalone?
>
> On 24.08.20 23:49, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > What is the current 'workaround' everyone is using when creating a
> > cross-platform app to make sure that all text appears the same regardless
> > of platform? Particularly between Windows and Mac for me at the moment.
> >
> > My client provided the font they needed in line with their tv show brand.
> > They need the app to work both PC and Mac. It seems I have to manually go
> > through each field, button and widget and make sure they are laid out
> > properly. The left, right, center alignments don't always match and the
> > vertical position certainly never matches.
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/v50aj7uv06bh4d9/MacText.png?dl=0
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/pry5teqp89xzbun/PCText.png?dl=0
> >
> > (This dates all the way to bug 3076!! Pretty awesome to hold onto a bug
> > reported back in 2005 for something so basic. Kudos to LC for keeping on
> > top of it.)
> >
> > Also, side note, does anyone remember why we STILL have a discrepancy
> > between fontnames() in Mac and Windows? Not only do the windows fonts
> show
> > alphabetically and mac dramatically out of order, but also, the names
> > themselves are screwed up:
> >
> >     1. eg, Windows: Helvetica Neue
> >     2. Mac: Helvetica, Helvetica Bold, Helvetica Bold Oblique, Helvetica
> >     Light, Helvetica Light Oblique, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica Neue Bold,
> >     Helvetica Neue Bold Italic, Helvetica Neue Condensed Black,
> Helvetica Neue
> >     Condensed Bold, Helvetica Neue Italic, Helvetica Neue Light,
> Helvetica Neue
> >     Light Italic, Helvetica Neue Medium, Helvetica Neue Medium Italic,
> >     Helvetica Neue Thin, Helvetica Neue Thin Italic, Helvetica Neue
> UltraLight,
> >     Helvetica Neue UltraLight Italic, Helvetica Oblique
> >
> >
> >     - eg. Windows: Arial, Arial Rounded MT, Arial Unicode MS
> >     - Mac: Arial, Arial, Arial Black, Arial Bold, Arial Bold, Arial Bold
> >     Italic, Arial Bold Italic, Arial Hebrew, Arial Hebrew Bold, Arial
> Hebrew
> >     Light, Arial Hebrew Scholar, Arial Hebrew Scholar Bold, Arial Hebrew
> >     Scholar Light, Arial Italic, Arial Italic, Arial Narrow, Arial
> Narrow Bold,
> >     Arial Narrow Bold Italic, Arial Narrow Italic, Arial Rounded MT
> Bold, Arial
> >     Unicode MS
> >
> > This is bonkers for a SDK that purports to make it 'Easy' to make
> > cross-platform apps.
> >
> > Thanks all
> >
> > Sean Cole
> > *Pi Digital *
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