Text differences between OSes

[Tom Eugelink]

Right. Nevermind. That's the drawback of CSS; on Debian the font was not correctly loaded, but there was no error. Both render at 11.0 now.

Tom


On 27-12-2015 09:48, Tom Eugelink wrote:
> The article behind the link says that specifying the size in px should solve it, I just retried that, but unfortunately specifying the font size in any unit, pt, cm, px, results in different values on either OS.
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> I've also tried replacing Text with Label and there a 24pt text is rendered as 19.0 or 21.0. Cleaner numbers.
> A 24px text as either 14.0 or 16.0, both exactly 2.0 width difference.
> So 12px is rendered as expected as 7.0 and 8.0, exactly 1.0 difference; half the size, half of the difference. Seems to indicate a scaling.
> But 18px as 11.0 and 12.0, I had expected 1.5 difference if it were a scale.
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> On 26-12-2015 23:24, Hervé Girod wrote:
>> In my memory the point size in Unix systems and Windows do not consider the same default screen density. See this for example: http://www.rfwilmut.clara.net/about/fonts.html
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>> Hervé
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Dec 26, 2015, at 23:05, Tom Eugelink <tbee at tbee.org> wrote:
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>>> Maybe someone can help me get going on this: my 'unit' tests on some of the component in JFXtras fail when run on different operating systems; right now I'm running Debian next to Windows and rending the same Text node has different results: on Windows it is 847 pixels wide, on Linux it is 1083 pixels.
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>>> So I suspected that a different default font was the cause, so I setup Google Roboto on both systems, but even then I have 1786 vs 2000 pixels (13.64 vs 15.26 for a single "0" with Roboto Medium on font-size 24). What else besides the font can cause this difference?
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