Massimiliano Cerioni

Hello, my M4L devices made on OSX have a different appearance on Windows. Basically, some 'live.comment' objects are not 'justified', so they randomly create a new text line, compromising the layout. No matter what I do, I can delete and replace them, modify and re-justify them, but this just happens. It is a real issue since as a Mac developer I've literally no way to double-check this, and I just find it strange that the same thing made in Max and that's supposed to be cross-platform (live.comment is definitely a common object) has different behavior according to the platform in use.

Hello, my M4L devices made on OSX have a different appearance on Windows. Basically, some 'live.comment' objects are not 'justified', so the

weird-'live-comment'-behaviour-on-windows

They default to left justified here (Windows 10), Ableton Sans Medium 9.5 regular (not sure this is Max default or something I set), not a Mac user so I don't know what are your expectations.

Are you sure it is not the different fonts in Windows?

Live doesn't install it in the Windows Fonts folder (they just put it in a folder that Live knows where it is), I did it manually (which I guess implies my default written above would not appear in a clean Windows install).

Maybe Live or Max install Ableton Sans on Mac?

Pretty sure if a font is not found in Windows and Mac, they will default to different fonts (since their bundled fonts are completely different).

Do you have  Ableton Sans font installed? 

Live doesn't install it in the Windows Fonts folder (they just put it in a folder that Live knows where it is), I did it manually (which I guess implies my default written above would not appear in a clean Windows install).

Maybe Live or Max install  Ableton Sans on Mac?

Thanks for the answer. I assume that a compiled M4L device should just include all the needed files within its folder, fonts included (especially if these fonts are the standard Live ones). In facts, I have the latest Max and Live licenses, and I use Ableton Sans Medium 9.5 Regular left justified cause it is the default option for live objects such as live.comment, it's just easier to go with it and let my device look as the other stuff in the Live GUI. Differences aren't about how the font looks, I have weird behaviour like: the text "Dry/Wet" looks in one line in Mac, and 2 lines on Win. So I have to reopen it under a Win computer - which I don't have now - and justify it again (Command or ctrl+J), and only then it looks good. It doesn't happen for every single live.comment, so it's also pretty hard to find what's the cause, as said above I tried many different replacements with no success.

M4L devices are not compiled, they are human-readable text.

Almost same for Live files like .als or .adg, they are also human readable text. but they are gzipped.

Anyhow, seems I can't help you further without a Mac, sorry.

Weird 'live.comment' behaviour on Windows