[comp.soft-sys.andrew] screen vs. printing font sizes

burdick@hpindda.HP.COM (Matt Burdick) (12/01/89)

On my high-res color screen, the bodyfont used in ez is too small to read
easily.  Unfortunately, if I change ez.BodyFont in my preferences to give a
larger font, it prints out in far to *large* a font.

Is there a way I can increase the font size on my screen without increasing
the font size for printing?


						-matt
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nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (12/02/89)

Have you tried a separate "ezprint.BodyFont" preference?  The theory, at
least, is that "ez.BodyFont" should affect what it looks like in ez,
"ezprint.BodyFont" should affect how it prints out, "help.BodyFont"
should affect the fonts used for help files, and so on.  "*.BodyFont"
should affect *any* program.  The first applicable preference line wins,
so you'd want to make sure your "*.BodyFont" default came AFTER any
program-specific preferences.

Hope that helps.  -- Nathaniel
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ao06+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Ayami Ogura) (12/02/89)

Just as clarification, the "ezprint.BodyFont" preference will only work
if you run ezprint from the typescript.  For example, let's say you have
ez.BodyFont and ezprint.BodyFont set to different fonts and run ez.  If
you print from within ez, the font will be the font of the output with
be ez.BodyFont.  But if you run ezprint from the typescript window, you
will get a printout with the ezprint.BodyFont.


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