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- From: hshlswe1@w222zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Hilmar Schlegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
- Subject: Re: Changing the font in the Scalable DOS window
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:25:13 GMT
- Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
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- References: <dmurdoch.422.727641548@mast.queensu.ca>
- Reply-To: hshlswe1@w222zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Hilmar Schlegel)
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- In article <dmurdoch.422.727641548@mast.queensu.ca>,
- dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
- > How do I change the font in the Scalable DOS window in DV/X? I can't seem
- > to find any mention of this in the manuals.
- >
- > Duncan Murdoch
- > dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
- This can be done perfectly simple:
- you replace the name of the lgb.pfb file used to represent the
- lettergothic-bold font with the name of the .pfb file you want to use!
- If you did not forget the corresponding .afm file these are the good news!
- Now the part not mentioned in the manuals:
- You must have a font (.pfb file) which is fixed width and supplies all
- needed symbols for the corresponding character set the IBM-PC uses.
- This is normally NOT the case for the available Adobe type 1 fonts.
- That means practically that you need a special program to EDIT fonts and
- MERGE the corresponding characters in the .pfb as well as into the
- corresponding .afm file. As far as one can see is the lgb-font the one
- and only containing all the information to be useful in a DOS window
- i.e. only ONE font for use in scalable DOS windows is supplied and
- it can NOT be replaced by the widely available .pfb fonts.
- I hope that is not to bad news!
- Sincerely,
- Hilmar Schlegel
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