I tried Helvetica Regular off the Internet, but it makes the rows to close 
together and the top lines of text are half off the screen everywhere. It 
looks almost like it wasn't designed for Helvetica with this one.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sascha Ludwig" <sas...@radio42.de>
To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" 
<rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts


> Hi
>
> Played a bit around with the fonts and settings on my debian 6.0.5
> testbox and finally
> found this color/font/antialiasing quite nice:
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5564313/Screenshot-RDAirPlay%20-%20Host%3A%20rd1%20User%3A%20user%20Log%3A%202012_08_16%20Service%3A%20WLR247.png
>
> It's basically the Polymer GUI Style with a changed background
> basecolor ('R225 G224 B223') (a bit darker than the original setting)
> As font replacement in qt3 config did not work for all used fonts, I
> tweaked the riv 2.1.5 source a bit and replaced the original font to an
> "Arial"
> which apparently had the uses styles 'bold' 'normal'.
> I know antialiasing is not always what you want. But on our Acer T231H
> touchscreens this looks far better than the bitmap font.
> It's a matter of personal taste. So love it or leave it :-)
>
> Only thing that is not perfect is kerning. You may notice it on the
> Button "Full Clock Fade" where the 'de' is not clearly aligned.
> But hey... It's not a design software anyway ;)
>
> Kind regards,
> Sascha
>
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:17:58 +1200, "Gavin Stephens"
> <small.net...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like those fonts too. I think their aspect ratio is better/taller.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Wayne Merricks" <waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com>
>> To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System"
>> <rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 4:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts
>>
>>
>>> Its just plain old 2.1.4 with the Polymer theme.  To be honest Riv has
>>> always looked like this for me.  The screen shot removed the Window
>>> title bar and introduced a shadow for some reason (ALT + Print Screen
>>> was all I hit).
>>>
>>> I've put up a plain screenshot of my stock Debian 6 install (without the
>>> drop shadow effect).
>>>
>>> http://thevoiceasia.com/airplay-deb6.png
>>>
>>> I adjusted the background and button values to I think rgb 225 but
>>> looking at the Ubuntu brightness it seems I should have went to 230/240.
>>>
>>> The only reason I did this is that for some reason Debian has a really
>>> dark grey default value that looks really ugly.
>>>
>>> Wayne Merricks
>>> The Voice Asia
>>>
>>> On 14/08/12 16:57, Alan Peterson wrote:
>>>> Wayne, what version are you running? It looks somewhat different from 
>>>> the
>>>> one I've got, and not just because of the graphics.
>>>> -AP
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Wayne Merricks"
>>>> Subject: Re: [RDD] Fonts
>>>>
>>>> Apart from the 3D Effect buttons, my Font looks the same as this on all
>>>> the Debian/Ubuntu installs I've performed.
>>>>
>>>> All I had to do was enable the bitmap fonts:
>>>>
>>>> sudo rm -rf /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
>>>> sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-force-bitmaps.conf 
>>>> /etc/fonts/conf.d
>>>> sudo fc-cache -f -v
>>>>
>>>> Then a quick poke about in qtconfig to enable polymer.
>>>>
>>>> I've put a screen shot of my test machine on the web for comparison.
>>>>
>>>> http://thevoiceasia.com/airplay.png
>>>>
>>>> Wayne Merricks
>>>> The Voice Asia
>>>>
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