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

["Charlie Nolan" <funnyman3595@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's duplicating my results on Gentoo, too.  I guess that confirms
that this one is upstream.

-FM

On 9/4/08, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Attached is a C version of font_test.py. It takes a font size as its
> only argument. Running the program for both pitch 21 and 210 I get the
> same results as I get for font_test.py.
>
> Lenard
>
>
> Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
>>
>> I can't account for why the numbers match at a pitch of 210, but not
>> 21. I did find the place in SDL_ttf where the dpi is set to the
>> FreeType default of 72. And the post to the FreeType mailing list I
>> referred to earlier,
>> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2002-08/msg00020.html,
>>
>> does imply that font size, in pixels, is affected by some operating
>> system provided value. But then this could involve values passed to
>> FreeType or FreeType as a display driver. On Windows there are no
>> explicit Windows api calls, just C library calls. So I don't know what
>> I imply any more. Maybe a C only version of font_test.py will clear
>> some things up.
>>
>> Lenard
>>
>>
>> Brian Fisher wrote:
>>> Lenard, are you saying you think it still may be a dpi problem?
>>>
>>> cause I think if dpi was the problem in this case, the discrepancy
>>> would scale with font size. But as there is no discrepancy between
>>> the platforms when the font size is 210 (i.e. charlies gentoo matches
>>> your windows box), it seems to me that dpi (or any font scaling
>>> really) is not different, and therefore not the cause here
>>>
>>> I really think SDL_ttf is fixing the freetype scaling so it doesn't
>>> vary with platform. It would just make sense.
>>>
>>> did I misunderstand or am I missing something there?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:len-l@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     As for display point size, that may be the case with Windows, but
>>>     what about Unix.
>>>
>>>
>>
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