On Thursday 02 March 2017 09:12:25 dragon wrote:
> I'm almost certain that Helvetica gets substituted by the system with
> an alternative on Mint 17.3 unless they added another font package.
>
> The other issue with helvetica is that it is not a scalable true type
> style font so looks like crud at all but certain sizes.
>
And that could well be correct, as it looks good, like a truetype should,
at any size I ask it for.
> On 03/02/2017 07:36 AM, John Thornton wrote:
> > Hevetica works fine on Linux Mint 17.3...
> >
> > JT
> >
> > On 3/2/2017 7:10 AM, dragon wrote:
> >> It might be because Helvetica is a long since gone font that I
> >> doubt is installed on your system. I have worked with another open
> >> source software project that has a bunch of legacy helvetica font
> >> selection hard coded into the C++. Boy that's a pain.
> >>
> >> Just pick a different font that you know is installed and see if
> >> that helps.
> >>
> >> On 03/02/2017 04:26 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> Greetings all;
> >>>
> >>> For some reason I cannot grok, I must comment out the two lines
> >>> isolated with xml comment strings in this xml code:
> >>>
> >>> <!-- start of jog size per click display -->
> >>> <hbox>
> >>> <vbox>
> >>> <label>
> >>> <text>"X-Jog size"</text>
> >>> <!-- <font>("Helvetica",12</font> -->
> >>> </label>
> >>> <number>
> >>> <relief>"raised"</relief>
> >>> <bd>2</bd>
> >>> <padx>23</padx>
> >>> <halpin>"X-Jog"</halpin>
> >>> <font>("Helvetica",18)</font>
> >>> <format>".4f"</format>
> >>> </number>
> >>> </vbox>
> >>> <vbox>
> >>> <label>
> >>> <text>"Z-Jog size"</text>
> >>> <!--<font>("Helvetica",12)</font>-->
> >>> </label>
> >>> <number>
> >>> <relief>"raised"</relief>
> >>> <bd>2</bd>
> >>> <padx>23</padx>
> >>> <halpin>"Z-Jog"</halpin>
> >>> <font>("Helvetica",18)</font>
> >>> <format>".4f"</format>
> >>> </number>
> >>> </vbox>
> >>> </hbox>
> >>>
> >>> Its a text holder box, why can't I specify the font. Without it,
> >>> I think its using some other stick font at about size 10. That
> >>> exact same syntax works in the "number" box. Why not in a label
> >>> box?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks all. I'm going back to bed, need some zz's.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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