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Article #45Re: Setting Warpsans as default font.
From: Edward Jaffe
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:00
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Buddy Donnelly wrote: > > Use an INI editor like UNIMAINT to open OS2.INI (USER Ini) and go to the > Application PM_SystemFonts. > > Or, in REGEDIT2, go to "My Computer" (makes ya wanta puke, doesn't it?), > then to HINI_USER_PROFILE and from there drill down to PM_SystemFonts. > > DefaultFont---"10.System Proportional" is the standard one, and the only > font that you are sure of seeing *all* dialogs sized correctly for. (If you > change this, you may lose some of the text on dialogs; that's a warning.) > Type in "9.WarpSans Bold", close it up, reboot and you're in business. Also, if you have a Matrox video card, you can use the "MGA Settings" dialog to set the default font. I tried WarpSans and many things looked great! Also, many dialogs don't show all of the data (annoying *and* UGLY). After months of using WarpSans as a default, I eventually went back to System Proportional 10. Edward Jaffe Los Angeles, CA
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