Hi Richmond, Could it be that the font names have changed on Xubuntu 12.04? Or the font is not present on Xubuntu 12.04? I see the same thing when I work with a font and the font is not installed on the pc the app is used on.
greetings, William 2014-03-19 9:37 GMT+01:00 Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>: > This may be a bit of a niche problem [a niche consisting of me, myself and > I], > but problem it is, nevertheless (nice spot of grammatical inversion there): > > A series of EFL standalones I authored with LC/RR 2.2.1 on Linux about 6/7 > years ago > have been causing me some problems recently. > > All of those stacks were authored with the textFields set to a fontSize of > 24. > > Until recently I was running the PCs in my school on Edubuntu 7.10 and > Ubuntu 8.something, and > the textFields were displaying text at size 24. > > I am gently changing my machines over to Xubuntu 12.04 LTS [and, thanks to > the very sound advice from > Mark Wieder, putting the 'Home' folder on a separate partition to the > 'Root' partition; speeds things up no end]. > > BUT, now those standalones are displaying text at size 10!!!!! > > This is a PIB to say the least. > > So, here I am on my "day off" looking at the source stacks and feeling > foolish. > > I have to do ONE thing, which I wonder how to do: and that is to guarantee > that the > texts will display at size 24. > > I don't know whether the problem has been because the textSize was set for > each stack individually > (rather than for either the card or the stack), whether this is something > to do with the fact that they > contain the 2.2.1 Linux engine (that is easily rectified), or something > else. > > HOWEVER, as these standalones are used to fairly good effect on an almost > daily basis I don't want to: > > 1. Chuck them out. > > 2. Put all the PCs back to Edubuntu 7.10. > > 3. Rewrite everything from scratch. > > Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
