Re: Prima 1.08 font problems

        Hi Martin!

On 22 Nov 02 at 17:23, "Martin" (Martin Walter) wrote:

Yes, the font metrics is still an area of confusion. Mostly, this
problem emerges if X font metrics are specified incorrectly. While
I do agree that this is an undesirable effect, I simply cannot think
on how would I catch and fix the bug in your case. Just in case,
can you report what is the X name of the font Prima is using?
You can uncomment all debug print statements in unix/apc_font.c
and send the dump also.

 Martin> Hello, please excuse me if this has been asked before, I didn't
 Martin> find an archive of this mailing list on the web (is there one?).

 Martin> On a default SuSE 8.0 + Gnome 1.4 installation I'm experiencing
 Martin> the problem that the default height of most widgets displaying
 Martin> fixed or user-entered text is too small. Taking examples/edit.pl
 Martin> as example, the height of the edit widget is only about 80% of
 Martin> what it should be, so the top fifth of each character is missing,
 Martin> which makes especially uppercase letters hard to read - it's the
 Martin> same with widgets that don't specify a font size. It also happens
 Martin> with any font I pick in the editor.pl example.

 Martin> This can be fixed be adjusting the height manually, but this would
 Martin> probably look stupid when used on other OSs then. Any easy
 Martin> solution to that? Not sure, but I think this problem didn't exist
 Martin> in 1.06 .

 Martin> Regards, Martin

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