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From: rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: WinWrite fonts when running 1028x768
Message-ID: <2963@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 90 19:12:52 GMT
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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	Using the 8514 fonts supplied with Windows when running in the
	1028x768 mode works well for programs which use the System font.
	However, when you run a program which using one of the other
	font sets then you are back to having small fonts.  One of these
	programs is Windows Write.  It tries to be WYSIWYG and display
	printer fonts.  This was pointed out to me by Sylvain Gingras.

	My first reactions is has anyone made fonts for
	the 800x600 or the 1028x768 mode.  According to the Windows 
	documentation set 6 was designed for 640x480.  Are there any
	other font design tools availiable other than the one included
	in the SDK?  We need a public domain tool so all those non-developers
	can spend their free time designing fonts while us developers can
	get to work writing those killer apps.  Would anyone spend the time
	making fonts and distributing them for free if someone wrote a free
	font generation tool?  If so I might be inspired to do it.  Of course
	the source will probably be in Modula-2!
	
	My second reaction was to say that Windows Write had System as
	one of the font choices, but it does not.  However, I decided
	to type "System" into the dialog box asking for font name and it
	took it.  I do not remember seeing this in the manual.  Anyone know
	anymore about this?  It works but is not very convenient.  

	Word for Windows does not have this problem since it has a draft mode
	which uses the system font and it also uses up memory.  Fonts in
	Windows leave a lot to be desired.

	-----Dale
		Rogerson----