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- From: hartigan@flowbee.interaccess.com (Mike Hartigan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: WB1.3 Default font?
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 02:17:26 GMT
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- Mathew Hendry (m.hendry@dial.pipex.com) wrote:
- : grendel (grendel@bluefin.net) wrote:
- : : It's been so long since I've used something other than WB2.1 or 3.0 that I'd
- : : forgotten how much nicer they are than 1.3 ;>. But I recently began a sort of
- : : "science project" using my A1000, which is booting 1.3. I need to enlarge the
- : : text font in any way I can, but can't remember how to set the default font or
- : : font size in the older Workbench enviroment. I think it involves the program
- : : FF (FastFonts) but I don't have any docs and there doesn't seem to be any help
- : : sources available for it. If someone could just refresh my memory and remind
- : : me how to use the program or set the fonts, I'd appreciate it. Thnx.
-
- : Just use the font preferences program in the Prefs drawer of your SYS:
- : partition or floppy and increase the point size
-
- It has been a long time, but not THAT long! What in the world are you referring
- to ("font preferences program" with 1.3 ???) There was one preferences program
- in which you specified everything.
-
- The simplest thing you can do is to select 60 col via Preferences. If that's not
- adequate, then FastFonts ("c:FF", I believe) will allow you to change the default
- font. I don't recall the syntax. There was shareware program called "SetFont"
- which will also work, and will allow proportional fonts (which can be difficult
- to use if you're going to be inputting anything via the keyboard), but the
- performance boost makes FF the preferred choice.
-
- : FastFonts, I think, only works with 8 point fixed width fonts such as Topaz/8,
- : so you may have to remove it from the Startup-Sequence to get things to work
- : properly.
-
- I don't recall that limitation, but I may be mistaken.
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