Oops, replace FONT-SIZE with whatever size font you want... sorry, I pasted that from code in something I'm working on!<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Clement Erik Ferguson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clementraphael@gmail.com" target="_blank">clementraphael@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Now I'm experiencing the same problem in Ubuntu 12.10. No symbol fonts render when using text/font; I only get the latin text equivalent. I tried this using the Dingbats font built into Ubuntu along with custom symbol fonts I had downloaded. Both Dingbats and the other symbol fonts I downloaded work fine in other programs.<br> <br>The system where this did work correctly was an Ubuntu 12.04 machine (running under a VM). The Ubuntu 12.10 machine I'm using now is a fresh OS installation using the 64-bit binary downloaded from the Racket site.<br> <br>Is anyone else using Ubuntu 12.10? Can you try running the following code?<br><br>(require 2htdp/image)<br>(text/font "test" FONT-SIZE "black" "Dingbats" 'symbol 'normal 'normal #f)<br> <br>This should render some triangles and a snowflake, not "test".<br><br>Thanks!<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Robby Findler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The text/font function ultimately just calls find-or-create-font with<br> the font details and then draw-string on the dc<%> with the string, so<br> I guess that this is either a problem at that level of the Racket GUI<br> system, or something that is just different about how Windows works<br> from other platforms. (Sorry I don't know the right answer here.)<br> <br> Robby<br> <div><div><br> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Clement Erik Ferguson<br> <<a href="mailto:clementraphael@gmail.com" target="_blank">clementraphael@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > Hi all,<br> ><br> > I'm a newcomer to Racket and I ran into a problem with the text/font<br> > function in 2htdp/image. stamourv on #racket helped me diagnose this, and it<br> > seems to be a problem confined to Windows XP. When using text/font with a<br> > symbol font like Wingdings or Symbol (standard symbol fonts included with<br> > Windows) the character is not rendered. Instead, I get whatever the<br> > equivalent Roman character would be.<br> ><br> > For instance:<br> ><br> > (define testingfont<br> > (text/font "012abc" 36 "black"<br> > "Wingdings" 'default 'normal 'normal #f))<br> ><br> > If I then type testingfont into the interactions window, instead of<br> > rendering a series of symbols I get the input string 012abc instead. I also<br> > tried using 'symbol instead of 'default. We tried the same code on Debian<br> > (stamourv) and Ubuntu (me) and it worked fine on those platforms.<br> ><br> > I'm running Windows XP 32-bit, and I am using Racket 5.3.1.<br> ><br> > Thanks!<br> ><br> </div></div>> ____________________<br> > Racket Users list:<br> > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br> ><br> </blockquote></div><br></div> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>