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From: mussar@bcars53.uucp (G. Mussar)
Subject: Re: 800 x 600 fonts anyone????
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.195937.1705@bigsur.uucp>
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <421@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 19:59:37 GMT

In article <421@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) writes:
>O.K., now that I'm using the 800 by 600 by 256 drivers all I get is an
>incredibly small screen font -- i.e. it seems to use the regular vga
>fonts.  I installed the 8514 fonts but they really hash up all the
>software -- nothing comes out properly and even though the letters are
>readable they tend to get chopped off at the right hand side.
The 800x600x? drivers provided by ATI are configured as 96 dpi. The 8514 fonts
are 120 dpi. Since I wanted to use the 120 dpi fonts, I played with the driver
to see if there was anything obvious that could be done. I searched for the
pattern 60 00 60 00 in the file hoping that it would be the horizontal and 
vertical resolution (16 bit integer representing 96, 96). I then selected a likely
looking match and substituted 78 00 78 00 (120,120). I am now running 120 dpi
drivers with 120 dpi fonts (quite nice too). This is not for the faint of heart
(nor for people who don't back up their systems). YMMV.
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