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#7 Graph's Y axis font is "fat" under Linux

Status: open

Owner: Peter MacDonald

Labels: BLT (8)

Priority: 3

Updated: 2010-12-11

Created: 2010-12-10

Creator: Bo Berggren

Private: No

The Y axis title doesn't look nice under Linux (I run Ubuntu 10.2 with Gnome). All letters are very wide compared to the X axis font. I understand that this has something to do with converting a freetype font to a bitmap before rotating it. Under Windows it looks much better.

Are you planning to address this?

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Peter MacDonald - 2010-12-11

This is a known problem on Linux. Originally BLT crashed on
8.5 with any rotated text. However a patch was applied (see below) to work around it.
However, it looks bad. A true solution requires a change to Tk.

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/730677

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Peter MacDonald - 2010-12-11

Note, some fonts look better than others when rotate. eg. using font "fixed" looks ok.

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Peter MacDonald - 2010-12-11

I'm dropping the priority for now as per the "fixed" font workaround.

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Peter MacDonald - 2010-12-11

priority: 5 --> 3

assigned_to: nobody --> pcmacdon
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