I'm trying to keep a consist font across a wide range of interfaces for a game, issue being that I'm not able to get the font to be the same given the tools

option A
@normal_font  = Gosu::Font.new(window, "Verdana", 12)
@normal_font.draw("Some text",50,50,0,1,1,0xffffffff)

option B

@img=Gosu::Image::from_text(window,"Some text", @normal_font,12,1,50,:center)
@img.draw(50,70, 0, 1, 1, 0xffffffff, :default)

the output text is different, option B is always smaller and gives the same font but smaller and cleaner, its quite interesting but starts to detract from the things I;m doing and the layout is loosing form from this difference. Fonts are correctly found. Windows box.

Any help on what I can do as I need to use both options in the code

     

The letters shouldn't be smaller. If this is really the case, I will consider this a bug, but I can only fix it when I get to work on the whole text system again in a future version.

That both methods look a bit different is normal though. Image#from_text can do all the one-time layouting work that Font#draw cannot do all the time, so things like font kerning or ligatures will slightly change the appearance of the font.

ok, understood re kerning but it does seem considerably different, set the font size to 150 and you notice a huge difference - looks like its a glitch but workable for now, thanks,