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softhook
New Font issues with 117
Oct 1st, 2006, 7:17pm  
Hi there I have a complicated program that ivolves exporting PDF's with text in them. Now with the new 117 version I am having problems. I tried using the hint(ENABLE_NATIVE_FONTS) but i can't seem to make it work nicely. I just wrote here a little program to illustrate my issue. I get really jaggy nasty outlines or even solid black blocks:


import processing.pdf.*;

PFont myFont;
boolean record;


void setup() {
 size(400, 400);

 hint(ENABLE_NATIVE_FONTS);
 myFont = createFont("FFScala", 32);


}

void draw() {
 if (record) {
   // note that #### will be replaced with the frame number. fancy!
   beginRecord(PDF, "frame-####.pdf");
 }

 textFont(myFont, 70);
 text("!@#$%", 10, 50);

 if (record) {
   endRecord();
 }
}

// use a keypress so a million files aren't created
void mousePressed() {
 record = true;
}
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fry
Re: New Font issues with 117
Reply #1 - Oct 1st, 2006, 11:13pm  
from a ways down in revisions.txt:

Caveats with PDF rendering:

+ use createFont() with a truetype font (some opentype also work) to
 make fonts work properly. any font that shows up in PFont.list()
 should work. if you don't use createFont(), they'll likely show up
 bitmappy and gross like images. the shape of the characters may be
 weird in some cases, there seems to be a java bug with cubic vs.
 quadric splines. looking into a workaround if necessary.

i'll get this added to the pdf reference as well.
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softhook
Re: New Font issues with 117
Reply #2 - Oct 2nd, 2006, 10:05am  
Hi Fry,
Thanks for getting back to me but I am still confused.

I used a font from the PFont.list() "HelveticaNeue" in my case its a TTF but I am still getting ugly screen and PDF output. What am I doing wrong?

I am on Intel Mac
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fry
Re: New Font issues with 117
Reply #3 - Oct 3rd, 2006, 9:42pm  
use an actual ttf file, and put it in the data folder of your sketch.

seems that something has broken with native fonts in java 1.5. you can also try switching to the java 1.4 vm as your default. i'm not sure whether this is 1) apple's bug, 2) sun's bug or 3) something new that they decided to enforce, and therefore our bug.
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fry
Re: New Font issues with 117
Reply #4 - Oct 6th, 2006, 2:50am  
This is specific to Java 1.5 on Mac OS X. Switching back to Java 1.4 as your default will prevent the bug, as will using a .TTF file. I've filed a bug in the bugs db so that we can track this, and have also just filed a bug with Apple.

http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=407

(Closing this thread, follow-up can happen at the bug report)
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