Font sizes and Ubuntu versions

William de Smet williamdesmet at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 04:59:21 EDT 2014


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.

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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