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Subject: Re: Fonts
Message-ID: <7004@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 90 02:30:39 GMT
References: <581@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Reply-To: dailey@cpsin2.UUCP (Chris Dailey)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing
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In article <581@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) writes:
>G'day,
>
>I've recently tried out the FED trick to build FIXEDWIDTH fonts for use with
>FF from my WorkBench/everywhere_else. [...]

I tried this, too, without luck.

>The
>results I obtained with some normal W.B fonts such as ruby.font & the Extras
>disk Helvetica.font from Adobe were poor although FF accepted them. This was
>due to the need as I discovered to change the XSIZE &(HSIZE? YSIZE) settings
>for these fonts as well as setting the FIXEDWIDTH option. FF expects an 8 pt
>wide font and so...

I seem to have tried all this without success.

>My greatest problem with FF was the grey matter b/w my two ears... It took me

Me, too.  I've tried the SETFONT utility (available PD) also with mixed
results.  I can change more fonts, but the filenames that appear under
the icons on the workbench remain the standard system font.
Incidentally, mixing SETFONT and FF causes a visit by the guru ... :(

Is there any way to change the system font to something smaller than 8x8?
(I know, I'm too demanding! :)

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