Re: [pygame] Problems with certain fonts in PyWeek3 entries

["Alejandro J. Cura" <alecu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/14/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> PyGame seems unable to handle certain fonts on my
> MacOSX system. I've noticed this with a couple of
> the PyWeek 3 entries. The symptom is that anything
> rendered in the font comes out as nothing but a
> series of missing-character symbols.
>
> One of these games is Typus Pocus, which contains
> a font called MagicSchoolOne.ttf that exhibits this
> problem. Another is Team_Cloudy's entry (Echo the
> Robot) with fonts axaxax.ttf and goodtime.ttf.
> The fonts display fine when opened with Font Book.
>
> Has anyone else had a problem like this? Any
> idea what could be done about it?
>
> I'm using MacOSX 10.4, Python 2.3 or 2.4,
> PyGame 1.7.1, SDL_ttf 2.0.8, Freetype 2.2.1.

While developing Typus Pocus we experienced that same problem when one
of our testers was using pygame-1.8.0pre on OSX.
He downgraded to 1.7 and the problem disappeared, so we just assumed
it had something to do with 1.8.0pre

Hope this helps
--
alecu