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Re: Setting Warpsans as default font.

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From: giprice
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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Subject: Re: Setting Warpsans as default font.
Date: 1999/07/21
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