On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:08:01 -0000, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:48:47 +0000, Cousin Stanley wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I have a tkinter application under Python 2.6 which is shows text in a
giant font, about twenty(?) times larger than expected.
The fonts are set using:
titlefont = '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-180-*'
buttonfont = '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-140-*'
labelfont = '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-140-*'
....
Although I've been a linux user for several years, that type of font
spec hurts my head .... :-)
Will the more simplistic type of tuple spec not work in your tkinter
application ?
I don't know, but I'll give it a try.
Nevertheless, I'd like to learn how to diagnose these sorts of font
issues. Can anyone suggest where I should start?
The Linux Cookbook has a fairly comprehensible page on the X Font Names at
http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_20.html (The Naming of Fonts. Hmm.
Paging T S Eliot...)
In this case I think you're missing a hyphen. Try
titlefont = '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-180-*'
This breaks down as:
Foundry: Adobe
Family: Helvetica
Weight: Bold
Slant: Roman
Proportionate Width: Normal
Additional: La la, can't hear you
Size in pixels: Whatever
Size in points: 180
Points as far as X is concerned are 1/727.2 of an inch. Pixels would be,
oh, maybe twenty times bigger?
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