[Ham-Mac] fldigi partially drawn?

[Carl Makin]

Hi Dick,

On 17/06/2012, at 8:27 PM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> At this point I figured I needed to find a Mac standard fixed-width font for use for use with fldigi so I opened the Font Book, clicked on the option to display installed Fixed Width fonts and decided to try the Menlo to see how it looked in fldigi.  Bingo, it looked just as good (and maybe better) as the VeraMono I have been using for some time.  I now have selected Menlo Italic - 18 for my fldigi Rx font and Menlo Regular - 18 for my Tx font.

There is also the DejaVu family of free fonts available for all platforms which are based on the Vera family - http://dejavu-fonts.org/.  Certainly worth a look.

Another nice free fixed width font is Anonymous Pro, which I often use for code editing.
(http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html)

Menlo is very nice however, I use it as a terminal font in iTerm.  I hadn't though to try it in FLDigi though.  Thanks for the hint.

> Soapbox: The computer industry and software developers cannot seem to get their acts together on fonts. A font that looks good in Microsoft's Outlook, looks like crap when selected for use in Apple's Mail and the same applies the other way.  A font that looks good in W7AY's cocoaModem on a Mac does not look the same when selected for use with fldigi.  Fldigi is hosted on three platforms Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and the fonts do not seem to render the same under the different platforms. Andale renders fine under Windows but is not attractive under OS X. I guess this why developers give users the option to select font and colors. This way we can display our on bad taste for fonts and colors.

As with most things cross platform, it's not as simple as one obvious right way.  Both Microsoft and Apple have done things they way they did for very good reasons.  Here is a good article laying out out why fonts render differently on both platforms:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html


Carl.
(vk1kcm)