Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 315 from 2004/2/14
From: Naples - Italy
Hi hiTCH-HiKER,
it seems that we have common interests and common problems. This is my solution for your current problem.
The default vertical font spacing used by AmigaOS is very small; it is larger with MorphOS. So, the "raw" metric that works well for truetype fonts with Amiga diskfont.library, does not work correctly with MorphOS diskfont.library. Actually the font baseline is not set by ttf managers, but is inferred by diskfont.library from the glyph descriptions. So fonts generated with the same options could be displayed with a straight baseline on the Amiga and with a jumping baseline on the Pegasos. To get rid of the problem you should reinstall your truetype fonts on the Pegasos with the most compatible "usWin ascender" option. Fonts will be smaller than with the "raw" metric, so you must increase a little your preferred sizes.
More about this subject in a forthcoming review...
Bye
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