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- From: robert@williams.demon.co.uk (Robert Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: MCP Problem...
- Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 21:44:08 GMT
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- >On 26 Feb 1996, Roberto Fabbri wrote:
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- >> I've experienced a strange problem with MCP: I can't select XEN font (8) in
- >> the One Font requester. It always says me that it's not an 8 point font. I
- >> don't think it's a bug of the preferences program, because if I select xen
- >> font without using the requester, the windows that use the system font
- >> results to be completely trashed.
- >>
- >> --
- >>
- >> Bye, Roby!
- >> fabbri@dimi.uniud.it
- >> Exs@irc
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-
- >I am glad that someone else has had the same problem as I. I can't get
- >any font to be selected without getting the same error (not an 8 point font.)
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- I think the problem is that the font has to be the same height *and* width as
- topaz 8 for the replacement to work properly. While XEN 8 is the correct
- height it is narrower than Topaz 8. In previous versions of MCP you could
- choose any 8 point font and if you didn't choose an exact clone of topaz
- everything got trashed. There is a utility called AntiTopaz on Aminet
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- AntiTopaz.lha util/misc 7K 46+Substitutes topaz with system default fo
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- this allows you, to replace topaz with any 8 point font including XEN 8,
- and seems to work very well with gadtools interfaces. I don't use it as the
- requester layouts become slightly courupted in Pagestream 3.
-
- -Robert
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