[pygame] Windows, Pygame and FreeSans?

[Ethan Glasser-Camp <glasse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi,

In tinkering, I switched my game to use FreeSans (from the
ttf-freefont package) rather than FreeSansBold, only to discover that
this gives rendered text a weird "double-spaced" look on Windows.
Probing deeper, I discovered that on my Linux machine, I get these
results:

>>> f = pygame.font.Font('freesans.ttf', 17)
>>> f.get_ascent()
14
>>> f.get_descent()
- -3

Whereas on Windows, the same font has an ascent of 21 and a descent of
- -7! I can get the text to render "correctly" by ignoring the ascent
and descent and just using the figures I got on my Linux machine, but
I'd really like to know why the different figures. (I copied the .ttf
file over to the Windows machine, so it's the same file.) How can I
debug this? Open the font up in FontForge or something?

Ethan
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