Re: [pygame] BUG: Inconsistent font behavior between Windows and Linux

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sure something can be put together. As for display point size, that 
may be the case with Windows, but what about Unix. To quote Charlie 
Nolan's quote of

René:

Looks like Gentoo builds a pretty standard SDL_ttf.  No patches, it
just specifies the various paths and passes on the system "Do I have
X11?" flag.

Does this mean some C macro is set for X Windows? If so, how does it effect conditional compilation?


Lenard



Brian Fisher wrote:
> It's good the display point size (dpi) doesn't matter - it would be 
> disappointing if SDL_ttf didn't fix such an obvious platform specific 
> variation like that.
>
> It seems to me the next best step is still to make a small test thing 
> that uses SDL_ttf without pygame to figure out if pygame is involved 
> or not.
>
> I'm not offering to help with that (sorry, too lazy) but maybe ctypes 
> would be a good way to write such a test without leaving python and go 
> to C or such - maybe the pygame-ctypes source could even be found 
> online for reference?
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:len-l@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     I don't know what to make of this. Changing the display font size
>     has no effect on the pixel size of the characters in SDL_ttf.
>
>     Lenard
>
>     Brian Fisher wrote:
>
>         Hmm.. looks like SDL_ttf claims that it opens fonts at 72 dpi:
>         http://jcatki.no-ip.org:8080/SDL_ttf/SDL_ttf_frame.html
>
>         ... so how is the point size supposed to map to pixels then?
>         Does 72 dpi seem to be correct?