[ROOT] Font problem in root 2.25?

From: Dariusz Miskowiec (D.Miskowiec@gsi.de)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 10:00:05 MET


Dear rootwomen and rootmen,

The following magic sequence of commands produces a picture. (wow)

gStyle->SetCanvasDefW(400)
gStyle->SetCanvasDefH(300)
TH2F *hr = new TH2F("hr","font test",2,0,1,2,0,1)
hr->Draw()

The axis labels look fine if I use root 2.23-08. They look 
terrible if I use root 2.25-00. I attach two gifs showing the 
difference. I do not use True Fonts. (My choice, isn't it?)

I am somewhat surprised that, apparently, I am the only one 
who feels disturbed by this. I can imagine the following 
explanations of this fact:

- everybody else uses always True Fonts, or
- everybody else is blind, or
- the root installation is screwed up (on the machines I tried). 

Last August, in fact, we complained about this, and then Rene 
provided the possibility of using the non-scaled system fonts. 
They look great and are fast and this helped us at that time. 
But they cannot be rotated, and now it slowly comes to drawing 
histograms, in which case, as you know, one axis is vertical 
and so should be its title.  

What to do? 

Best regards
Dariusz Miskowiec

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