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Article #46Re: Setting Warpsans as default font.
From: giprice
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:00
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In <3794A60A.B8AD62E5@phoenixsoftware.com>, Edward Jaffe <edjaffe@phoenixsoftware.com> writes: >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 Yes, I also changed from WarpSans (9 is it's only possible size IIRC) after a while to System Proportional via Matrox settings. I wanted a bigger font on the desktop so I chose 12. Cheers, Greg
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a752,3b95cf4bdfa493e X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public X-Google-Thread: f4337,3b95cf4bdfa493e X-Google-Attributes: gidf4337,public X-Google-Thread: 10c4f5,3b95cf4bdfa493e X-Google-Attributes: gid10c4f5,public From: giprice@ibm.net Subject: Re: Setting Warpsans as default font. Date: 1999/07/21 Message-ID: <zobl3.5023$r61.38657@ozemail.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 503391206 Distribution: world References: <37944774.224DDD2C@ibm.net.nospam> <Z8vLRdP7nz3N-pn2-OdLWrTg8T4gk@dt142n3e.tampabay.rr.com> <3794A60A.B8AD62E5@phoenixsoftware.com> X-Trace: ozemail.com.au 932528799 210.84.137.4 (Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:46:39 EST) Organization: OzEmail Ltd, Australia Reply-To: giprice@ibm.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:46:39 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.bugs,aus.computers.os2