jas@monk.proteon.com (John A. Shriver) (02/16/89)
Am I losing my mind, or is there really no visible difference between screen.r.13 and screen.r.14? (SunOS 3.5.2.) All of the other screen.r.* fonts are obviously different sizes, but when I try and increase my font size from 13 to 14, I notice no difference whatsover. All I want is a font that is clear on my not-so-perfectly converged 3/160C display. All the serif fonts get hoplessly sparkly. My FE is not sure that swapping out the display would get me any improvement. Yes, I have degaussed it. Is there any other public repository of fonts for SunOS?
mikey@uunet.uu.net (Mike Lee) (03/01/89)
John Shriver complains... >All I want is a font that is clear on my not-so-perfectly converged 3/160C >display. All the serif fonts get hoplessly sparkly. I have had a similar problem in that I wear somewhat computer-nerdish glasses for my nearsightedness and they suffer me chromatic aberration on my otherwise perfect Sony monitor. People who have extended their monitor cables and not kept the lengths of the four cables exactly the same may also be interested, although I haven't tried it myself. I would suggest that you use the -f and -b options to suntools to set your foreground to an additive primary color (i.e. red, green, or blue) and your background to black. Your background could also be an extra-dark shade of the foreground. You will then only be seeing the image from a single electron beam, which will probably be aligned with itself very nicely. I have found that light green on dark gray is eminently readable and is a good compromise between too much contrast (against a black background, for example) and a vomit-like color scheme (light green on dark_green, for example). You could try reds or blues, but green will most likely be easier on the old balls. The exact color triplets I use are: suntools -f 0 255 200 -b 70 70 70 The gray background covers up reflections from light sources outside the monitor (what, you mean there is more to the world than my computer monitor?). The foreground triplet is an exact match for the color of my old Televideo 955 monochrome terminal. If you haven't already, use defaultsedit to change your rootwindow pattern to gray. Since your problem seems to be more severe, try a lower blue value with the foreground, perhaps 0 255 100. I tried that, and text was perfectly readable even after I set the convergence controls to their extremes. It will take a while to get used to that color though. If you like that healthy green glow in your face, swap the foreground and background colors. There is a program (coloredit?) that comes on the same tape as the manual pages. You can use it to experiment with colors without having to specify them numerically. If don't have the tapes, you can type it in from the "Sunview Programmers Guide" appendix A.9. It's in one of those weird three-ring optical drives with the 10,000,000,000 ns access time. Delicious Demons, Mike Lee Ontek Corp VOX: 1-714-768-0301 UUCP: ontek!banzai!mikey@uunet.uu.net USPS: 22951 Mill Creek Road Laguna Hills CA 92653