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OS/2 Warp 4 system font is too large - how to reduce font size?
wsgibson:
Thanks Andreas. I will be buying eCS once version 2.2 becomes available. I figured I would purchase a copy of OS/2 Warp 4 and use it until then. I tried the eCS 1.2 and 2.2 demos and they, of course, did not have this issue. Having used eCS and not experiencing this issue I was not sure if there was something with my installation of Warp 4 that I had configured wrong, had not patched fully, or if there might have been some sort of modification.
Thanks for the help!
Scott
ivan:
Scott, there is one thing you could try, setdfont (setdf101.zip) on hobbes.
I use it on all the computers here - well the one from which they were cloned and on a friends computer where the dialogue boxes and some program output displays were taking up a lot of the screen for no valid reason. Once I set the default font to warp sans 9 everything was back to normal. If memory serves it does need a rexxutil DLL and vrexx to work.
Andreas Schnellbacher:
--- Quote from: ivan on April 25, 2013, 08:56:27 pm ---Scott, there is one thing you could try, setdfont (setdf101.zip) on hobbes.
Once I set the default font to warp sans 9 everything was back to normal.
--- End quote ---
You would get clipping of dialog texts, as I wrote before.
ivan:
Andreas, so far I have seen clipping of dialogue text on only one settings notebook page and I can't even remember which It was when I used it several years ago.
As I said it removes the large ugly dialogue boxes making them neat and tidy and more fitting with the basic OS/2 setup I have here. If there was regular clipping I would have heard about it from those using the workstations - they love to complain about the smallest thing.
wsgibson:
Thanks Ivan. I did give it a try. On my system the clipping is actually worse than the results I get from using DefaultFont. Using a DefaultFont of "10.System Proportional" and NewView helped a lot in making things better. There are a few various interface elements that use larger than necessary fonts but at least they are somewhat subdued with DefaultFont.
Thanks,
Scott
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