createFont() creates the same font no matter what

ProkopHapala

Hi, I'm comparing various fotns to see which is well readable at very small size. I found several candidates in Tools>CreateFont dialog. But when I plot a text samples using these fonts all looks the same. This is strange especialy when I compare monospaced fonts with non-monospaced. In CreateFont dialog the fonts are OK i.e. does not look the same.

I'm using processing 2.2.1 in Ubuntu 14.04 java version "1.7.0_55" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.4.7) (7u55-2.4.7-1ubuntu1) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)

this is the code for plotting text smaples by different fonts:

int sz = 14;
String teststring = "0123456789 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ~!@#$%^&*(){}[]_+|';<>?/";
//String teststring = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
static String [] fontNames = { "Georgia", "DejaVuSans","DejaVuSansMono", "Dialog.plain",
                               "DroidSansMono", "DroidSerif","DroidSansMono","LiberationMono",
                               "LiberationSans","LucidaSans-Typewriter","Monospaced.plain","SansSerif.plain",
                               "SourceCodePro-Regular","Ubuntu-Light","UbuntuMono-Bold","WenQuanYiMicroHeiMono"
                             };

void setup(){
  print( PFont.list() );
  size(1200,800);
  background(255);
  noSmooth();
  fill(0); 
  for ( int i=0; i<fontNames.length; i++ ){
    String name = fontNames[i];
    PFont myFont = createFont( name, sz, false );
    textFont(myFont);
    text( name      ,10,20+i*(sz+1) );
    text( teststring,200,20+i*(sz+1) );
  }
}

_vk

Your code worked for me for every font that I have properly installed, maybe you don't have them available...

Try this one, it will check to see if the font is available:

int sz = 14;
String teststring = "0123456789 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ~!@#$%^&*(){}[]_+|';<>?/";
String [] fontNames = { 
  "Georgia", "DejaVuSans", "DejaVuSansMono", "Dialog.plain", 
  "DroidSansMono", "DroidSerif", "DroidSansMono", "LiberationMono", 
  "LiberationSans", "LucidaSans-Typewriter", "Monospaced.plain", "SansSerif.plain", 
  "SourceCodePro-Regular", "Ubuntu-Light", "UbuntuMono-Bold", "WenQuanYiMicroHeiMono"
};




void setup() {
  size(1200, 800);
  background(255);
  String[] existingFonts = PFont.list();
  fill(0); 
  for ( int i=0; i<fontNames.length; i++ ) {
    String name = fontNames[i];
    if (fontExists(name, existingFonts)) {
      PFont myFont = createFont( name, sz, false );
      textFont(myFont);
      fill(0); 
      text( name, 10, 20+i*(sz+7) );
      text( teststring, 200, 20+i*(sz+7));
    } else {
      textFont(createFont("courrier", 13));
      fill(90);
      text( name, 10, 20+i*(sz+7));
      text( "Not Found... ", 200, 20+i*(sz+7));
    }
  }
}


boolean fontExists(String font, String[] installed) {
  for (int i = 0; i < installed.length; i++) {
    if (font.equals(installed[i])) {
      return true;
    }
  }
  return false;
}

ProkopHapala

thanks, yes, the fonts are "not installed" according to PFont.list(), but what does it mean? These font are accesible by Tools>Create font or eg. in LibreOffice font selection. So how can I install them, or rather make them visible for PFont.list()?