[DUG] Large Fonts/DPI

[Nick Fauchelle]

TOK

Rohit Gupta wrote:
> 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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