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2 total messages Started by Duncan Murdoch Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:39
Changing the font in the Scalable DOS window
#1849
Author: Duncan Murdoch
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:39
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How do I change the font in the Scalable DOS window in DV/X?  I can't seem 
to find any mention of this in the manuals.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
Re: Changing the font in the Scalable DOS window
#1860
Author: Hilmar Schlegel
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:25
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In article <dmurdoch.422.727641548@mast.queensu.ca>,
dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
> How do I change the font in the Scalable DOS window in DV/X?  I can't seem 
> to find any mention of this in the manuals.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
This can be done perfectly simple:
you replace the name of the lgb.pfb file used to represent the
lettergothic-bold font with the name of the .pfb file you want to use!
If you did not forget the corresponding .afm file these are the good news!
Now the part not mentioned in the manuals:
You must have a font (.pfb file) which is fixed width and supplies all
needed symbols for the corresponding character set the IBM-PC uses.
This is normally NOT the case for the available Adobe type 1 fonts.
That means practically that you need a special program to EDIT fonts and
MERGE  the corresponding characters in the .pfb as well as into the
corresponding .afm file. As far as one can see is the lgb-font the one
and only containing all the information to be useful in a DOS window
i.e. only ONE font for use in scalable DOS windows is supplied and
it can NOT be replaced by the widely available .pfb fonts.
I hope that is not to bad news!
Sincerely,
Hilmar Schlegel
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