For what it's worth, ever since my Master's thesis with LiveCode/RunRev, I have always set up buttons with fonts the way I want them on whatever platform, imported snapshots of those buttons, and used those images as buttons.
No stress, No mess! On Fri, 2 Sept 2022, 18:00 Bob Sneidar via use-livecode, < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I read a blog some years back why it is so difficult to get nything on > Windows to look like it does on the Mac. It is true that Windows renders > fonts differently that Mac, so "exactly the same" remains the realm of the > imagined. But you can get close. My big issue was that using Arial, labels > that were right aligned and auto fitted on the Mac would overflow the left > f the label on Windows. > > Now I am using Aclonica for form headers, Acme for labels and Actor for > fields, buttons and grids. (Didn't have to look far did I?) I'm pretty > happy now with the rendering of each on both platforms. > > Bob S > > > On Sep 1, 2022, at 23:18 , Neville Smythe via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> > wrote: > > Standardising fonts, so that one would no longer have to check that every > label and field carefully crafted on the Mac to fit text precisely would > not have missing pixels or whole words wrapped out of sight on Windows > because of different font metrics, sounds like a great idea. But the > reality of the way systems render fonts seems to complicate things: > > I set up a test standalone with the Google fonts NotoSans-regular.ttf and > NotoSerif-regular.ttf installed. A label and and single line text field > were set up to be exactly the right size to fit some text using Arial font > on a Mac (Monterey). Then the labels and field were set to use NotoSans or > NotoSerif fonts. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
