<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Jul 2017, at 20:14, Damon Lynch <<a href="mailto:damonlynch@gmail.com" class="">damonlynch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Kyle Altendorf <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:sda@fstab.net" target="_blank" class="">sda@fstab.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt" class=""><span class="gmail-"><p class=""><span class="">On 2017-07-06 23:18, Damon <wbr class="">Lynch wrote:</span><br class=""><br class=""></p>
</span><blockquote type="cite" style="padding:0px 0.4em;border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin:0px" class=""><span class="">* The font may not be aliased.</span><br class=""><span class="">* The font may be a serif <wbr class="">font, instead of sans serif.</span></blockquote><span class="gmail-"><p class=""><br class=""><span class="">Those seem like reasonable things to vary per distribution, or even just by user settings. Are you saying that they vary but do not actually match the distribution defaults? Or, are you wanting to override all distribution and user settings and force your application to look 'consistent' with itself instead of fitting in?</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><span class=""></span></p>
</span></div></blockquote><div class=""> </div></div>To clarify, the font problem is that when running as an AppImage, the
fonts do not look the same as when the same application runs in the same
distribution for the same user when that application is installed with pip. <br class=""><br class="">In other
words, the pip installed version looks great, but the AppImage one can
look awful and very much out of place. Here is a composite image (43 kB) that illustrates the problem on two different distros:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://damonlynch.net/rapid/screenshots/beta/appimage-font-problem.png" class="">http://damonlynch.net/rapid/screenshots/beta/appimage-font-problem.png</a><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>What I think I see is that the font is not the same in each case.</div><div>Are you bundling the font to be used?</div><div>Maybe fontconfig is using a fallback to replace a missing font?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Barry</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">The image illustrates that with the first distro, the AppImage font changes to a serif font, which is wrong.<br class=""><br class="">With respect to Simon's point about the legality of font aliasing, it's
entirely possible I'm using the wrong terminology for what I thought was
aliasing. Perhaps the correct term is hinting? In any case, as can be
seen in the second pair of images, the hinting / aliasing is different
in the AppImage. I suspect the first pair of images also have the same hinting / aliasing problem.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Although the distributions are different (Fedora and Ubuntu derived respectively), that's not the determining factor, as an AppImage in Kubuntu looks like it does in the Korora install.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best,<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Damon<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><a href="http://www.damonlynch.net/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.damonlynch.net</a><div class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class=""></div></div>
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