[DUG] Large Fonts/DPI

[Rohit Gupta]

Sorry, just a test.  Either there are no DUG messages or my migration of 
the email reader has gone wonky.

Ross Levis wrote:
> Ah, no.  MS Sans Serif does not scale.  It has only a selection of sizes 
> available.  You need a TrueType font.  I changed all my forms to use 
> Arial to get proper scalling.
>
> Ross.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Bird" <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz>
> To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz>
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 2:03 PM
> Subject: SPAM-LOW: RE: [DUG] Large Fonts/DPI
>
>
> The problem I am having is quite limited and specific.....font size in a
> grid
>
> The form I am having trouble with is optionally being scaled using 
> scaleby
> (works fine)...
>
> the font for the grid is set to a user choice value.
> When running on a screen at 120DPI the font size I set (eg 6 or 8 or 10
> point) in the grid seems to be either ignored or treated in some bizarre 
> way
> - I get a huge font that I would say looks like 12/14 point or larger...
>
> The font is the default grid font, MS Sans Serif, according to my 
> research
> should scale fine and be on all versions Windows
>
> (eg see http://www.angelfire.com/al4/rcollins/style/fonts.html  )
>
> Handy font reference for universally available fonts.
>
> Musings:
>
> Is the MS Sans Serif font the problem? Cos I can change it 
> programmatically
> if that's all it is.  From my research it looks
> like MS Sans Serif should be a safe font to use....
>
> I will also experiment with what you suggest using scaleby, as I am 
> already
> using this anyway (as you say it does a pretty good job) - but shooting 
> in
> the dark as I don't have such a 120DPI screen here..
>
> As for saying "don't use large fonts" I don't think I can do that as the 
> PC
> was set up by a network provider who set the large fonts to get the 
> fancy
> new big LCD screen to work best with the old PC's version of windows
> (windows 98 in most cases) and my software is just one of the programs 
> being
> used.....unless there is no other choice!  ;)
>
>
>
> John 
>
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