parkerw@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Parker Waechter) (06/24/91)
I just installed dos 5 on my hard disk (I was running 3.3 before) and in the process did some repartitioning and moving around of directories. After doing this, and updating all apropriate .ini file lines I could find, I tried running windows. It came up without incident, however, there seems to be a problem with fonts now. The program manager and icons etc all use a font that appears to be too large (larger than before). I tried running word for windows, and though it still reports all the fonts that should be there in the font list window, it does not display them. I tried installing a different resolution video driver so it would recopy the fonts (which it did), and then back again, but the problem still exists. After further examination, it seems that it only occurs in standard and enhanced mode. Real mode has no problems. Any clues as to what the problem might be? Please echo responses via email. Parker -- Parker B. Waechter UCLA Biocybernetics Lab parkerw@cs.ucla.edu 4731 Boelter Hall Los Angeles, Ca. 90024-1596
oneil@zeus.unomaha.edu (07/01/91)
In article <1991Jun24.042132.14114@cs.ucla.edu>, parkerw@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Parker Waechter) writes: [Deleted: Parker writes that he just added 5.0 this weekend and repartitioned his hard disk. He then reports some problems with fonts.] I too added Dos 5.0 this weekend I am having problems with the font handler in the Control Panel. Now that I don't have Windows confined in a tiny little 8 meg partition, I decided to add some *.fon files from cica.cica to my system file in Windows and I've had nothing but problems since. I certainly don't want all of them to be installed, since they're memory hogs, but I thought I would just activate them as I wanted to use them. > The program manager and icons etc all use a font that appears to be too > large (larger than before). I tried running word for windows, and though > it still reports all the fonts that should be there in the font list window, > it does not display them. I tried installing a different resolution video > driver so it would recopy the fonts (which it did), and then back again, but > the problem still exists. My problem is that fonts I have deactived are still showing up in Write and fonts I have activated are not. Is this strange? I know that for W4W's it is necessary to create a new winword.INI file. Is there somethign similar I must do here? By the way, so what's the deal with the font option in control panel? For a while it would say that fonts were active, but the examples of the fonts weren't showing up under that option and it would not let me delete them. I had to go and change the win.INI file under fonts and then it would work again. Why is the font option in the Control Panel being so fussy? Does it not like the fact I have Dos 5.0 and stacker? Is there a bug of some sort in the font thing? Should I just go out and buy Adobe Type Manager? Would that make things easier? (I plan on it anyway, since there's about a /billion/ ATM fonts floating around out there. [Parker asks for responses via e-mail, I'd really just love to know if folks are having weird problems with fonts like this too.] -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sharon Lindsey O'Neil "I could be happy/I could be quite naive/ Bitnet: oneil@unomai1 It's only me and my shadow/Happy in our Internet: oneil@zeus.unomaha.edu make believe/Soon." -- Tears for Fears ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~