Hello, Am using ActivePerl 5.8, PAR 8.5 module on Windows XP Thanks to previous help I am now able to package my perl scripts as stand alone executables on Windows. However when I package up a Tk script (Tk is fully integrated into ActivePerl) and it runs perfectly on my machine. However on other machines the resultant gui has garbled labels (basically all squares). Now I may be a newbie at Perl\Tk but I am a very experienced Sys Admin (both in windows and unix - so no comments about "experienced windows admins please) so I recognise this as a font not recognised issue. I changed the code to include the following; 

 my $info_frm = $mw->Frame(-relief => 'groove',
              -borderwidth => 2,
              -label => "This application is to install Libs",
              -labelFont=> 'Arial')
              ->pack;

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to try and embed the font but no luck. As you can see the font I used is Arial (i.e. it IS on all windows) so it should be recognised. Also all the PCs I have tested it on are also Windows XP.

Thanks for any thoughts or pointers - or even the answer;).

Plotinus

In reply to Using pp with Tk garbles my lable fonts... by Plotinus

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