Solve : Add new font?

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Answer» Hi, I run old dos software in windows 7 using NTVDM. It will not run full screen but if I right click on my icon - go to properties and click on "font" I can change the font which changes the size of the screen. There are 3 fonts -Consolas -Lucinda console and raster fonts. Some of these make my screen bigger but not full screen. How can I add more fonts. I am sure there is one which will do the job. GeofflAt at this moment I am not running Windows 7. But I think the dos box fonts shou7ld be the same. [image of my desktop running CMD on XP] In the above, if you see it, I can make the size of at lest one font very large. I did not add any fonts, just used what was there already. Can you do that? Yes, if I use the one you are using at size 24 the window is about 2/3 the size of the screen. At size 28 the window is full size but all the words don't FIT inside.How do you post that picture of your desktop?The DOS box should have scroll bars when nit is not full screen. I have very lo vision, so I often have to work that way. Are you able to get a size you like? I also wear 2x reading glasses and work about 10 inches from the screen. I did a screen capture and then cropped it with a photo editor. I saved it as PNG to cut down non size. I did an FTP to my web site. Pictures I post for CH are under my CH directory. Like this: http://geek9pm.com/CH If you click on that, you will see a list of my graphics and cutesie I have posted there at some time. Here is the specific image http://geek9pm.com/CH/dos-font.png To show in the post, I use the [img] tag , the first one on the second line in the stuff above the little smiley faces. BTW: JPG works good too, but I like PNG for screen shots. If you do not have a web site, you can post of some of the free photo servers around. Photo bucket is just one of many. Also, a photo can be uploaded to this forum as an attachment. Be careful about size limit. Both display size and file size. 500 by 400 looks good. Or smaller. Quote Attach: (Clear Attachment) (more attachments) Allowed file types: doc, gif, jpg, mpg, pdf, png, txt, zip, log, bat, bmp Restrictions: 4 per post, maximum total size 700KB, maximum individual size 700KB I think that is very clever but a bit too complicated for an old guy like me. If I use the font you are using at size 24 the window is about 2/3 the size of the screen. At size 28 the window is full size but all the words don't fit inside. There is a bar at the bottom so you can scroll across and see the rest of the text. This is old dos stuff that runs our business. On XP it works full screen but, as time marches on, I guess we have to progress to win7. My glasses are 2.5X (maybe I am around your age) and I would like to see things as big as possible. Any ideas about adding more fonts? Why does the size of the window change when I change the font size? Regards Geoffl Quote from: geoffl on June 16, 2013, 05:45:31 AM If I use the font you are using at size 24 the window is about 2/3 the size of the screen. At size 28 the window is full size but all the words don't fit inside. There is a bar at the bottom so you can scroll across and see the rest of the text. There is a setting for window size in columns (width) and rows (height). It is on the Window Properties tab called Layout. Old Dos programs generally assume a screen 80 columns wide. What I suggest you do is make the width of the window 80 columns and the height 25 rows, and then monkey around with the font size, window width and height settings until you get somewhere, not forgetting that the maximize/restore buttons at the top right will have an effect. Also if you uncheck "Let system position window" and set Window Position Left and Right to 0 (zero) then the window top left corner will be fixed to the top left of the screen and you can make the window grow to the right and downwards by altering the settings I have mentioned. Don't forget to click OK after altering settings, or they won't stick. Note: the Screen BUFFER Size width will change to reflect your Screen Width setting, and the Screen Buffer depth setting governs how far up you can scroll to see previous screen activity. If you set it the same as the screen height Quote from: Salmon Trout on June 16, 2013, 06:38:54 AM If you set it the same as the screen height... Sorry, I forgot to complete that. If you set the Screen Buffer height the same as the Window Size height you get no vertical scroll bar. Quote from: Salmon Trout on June 16, 2013, 06:38:54 AM the Screen Buffer depth setting governs how far up you can scroll to see previous screen activity. depth = height Hi, Thank you for your HELP. I have changed the layout as you suggested. That is what I am looking for 80 x 25. Font Lucinda console is the best match. On size 28 the text is wider than the screen by 5 characters. If when the window is open I right click on the BLUE bar at the top of the window, the properties layout tab shows a screen width of 75. If I change it to 80 it just changes back to 75. Regards Geoffl Quote from: geoffl on June 16, 2013, 06:23:57 PM Hi, Thank you for your help. I have changed the layout as you suggested. That is what I am looking for 80 x 25. Font Lucinda console is the best match. On size 28 the text is wider than the screen by 5 characters. If when the window is open I right click on the blue bar at the top of the window, the properties layout tab shows a screen width of 75. If I change it to 80 it just changes back to 75. Regards Geoffl Try clicking the Maximize button, if you have not already done so. The maximize button does not change the size of the screen - just moves the whole screen a few millimeters to the left. Is there any way to add another font? I am sure somewhere there is one which will fit. Regards Geoffl

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Hi,
I run old dos software in windows 7 using NTVDM. It will not run full screen but if I right click on my icon - go to properties and click on "font" I can change the font which changes the size of the screen. There are 3 fonts -Consolas -Lucinda console and raster fonts. Some of these make my screen bigger but not full screen. How can I add more fonts. I am sure there is one which will do the job.
GeofflAt at this moment I am not running Windows 7. But I think the dos box fonts shou7ld be the same.

[image of my desktop running CMD on XP]
In the above, if you see it, I can make the size of at lest one font very large. I did not add any fonts, just used what was there already. Can you do that?

Yes, if I use the one you are using at size 24 the window is about 2/3 the size of the screen. At size 28 the window is full size but all the words don't FIT inside.How do you post that picture of your desktop?The DOS box should have scroll bars when nit is not full screen. I have very lo vision, so I often have to work that way. Are you able to get a size you like? I also wear 2x reading glasses and work about 10 inches from the screen.

I did a screen capture and then cropped it with a photo editor. I saved it as PNG to cut down non size. I did an FTP to my web site. Pictures I post for CH are under my CH directory. Like this:
http://geek9pm.com/CH
If you click on that, you will see a list of my graphics and cutesie I have posted there at some time.
Here is the specific image
http://geek9pm.com/CH/dos-font.png
To show in the post, I use the [img] tag , the first one on the second line in the stuff above the little smiley faces.

BTW: JPG works good too, but I like PNG for screen shots.
If you do not have a web site, you can post of some of the free photo servers around. Photo bucket is just one of many.
Also, a photo can be uploaded to this forum as an attachment. Be careful about size limit. Both display size and file size. 500 by 400 looks good. Or smaller.
Quote

Attach:
(Clear Attachment)
(more attachments)
Allowed file types: doc, gif, jpg, mpg, pdf, png, txt, zip, log, bat, bmp
Restrictions: 4 per post, maximum total size 700KB, maximum individual size 700KB

I think that is very clever but a bit too complicated for an old guy like me.
If I use the font you are using at size 24 the window is about 2/3 the size of the screen. At size 28 the window is full size but all the words don't fit inside. There is a bar at the bottom so you can scroll across and see the rest of the text. This is old dos stuff that runs our business. On XP it works full screen but, as time marches on, I guess we have to progress to win7. My glasses are 2.5X (maybe I am around your age) and I would like to see things as big as possible. Any ideas about adding more fonts? Why does the size of the window change when I change the font size?
Regards

Geoffl Quote from: geoffl on June 16, 2013, 05:45:31 AM

If I use the font you are using at size 24 the window is about 2/3 the size of the screen. At size 28 the window is full size but all the words don't fit inside. There is a bar at the bottom so you can scroll across and see the rest of the text.

There is a setting for window size in columns (width) and rows (height). It is on the Window Properties tab called Layout. Old Dos programs generally assume a screen 80 columns wide. What I suggest you do is make the width of the window 80 columns and the height 25 rows, and then monkey around with the font size, window width and height settings until you get somewhere, not forgetting that the maximize/restore buttons at the top right will have an effect.

Also if you uncheck "Let system position window" and set Window Position Left and Right to 0 (zero) then the window top left corner will be fixed to the top left of the screen and you can make the window grow to the right and downwards by altering the settings I have mentioned.

Don't forget to click OK after altering settings, or they won't stick.

Note: the Screen BUFFER Size width will change to reflect your Screen Width setting, and the Screen Buffer depth setting governs how far up you can scroll to see previous screen activity. If you set it the same as the screen height

Quote from: Salmon Trout on June 16, 2013, 06:38:54 AM

If you set it the same as the screen height...

Sorry, I forgot to complete that. If you set the Screen Buffer height the same as the Window Size height you get no vertical scroll bar. Quote from: Salmon Trout on June 16, 2013, 06:38:54 AM

the Screen Buffer depth setting governs how far up you can scroll to see previous screen activity.

depth = height
Hi,
Thank you for your HELP. I have changed the layout as you suggested. That is what I am looking for 80 x 25. Font Lucinda console is the best match. On size 28 the text is wider than the screen by 5 characters. If when the window is open I right click on the BLUE bar at the top of the window, the properties layout tab shows a screen width of 75. If I change it to 80 it just changes back to 75.
Regards

Geoffl Quote from: geoffl on June 16, 2013, 06:23:57 PM

Hi,
Thank you for your help. I have changed the layout as you suggested. That is what I am looking for 80 x 25. Font Lucinda console is the best match. On size 28 the text is wider than the screen by 5 characters. If when the window is open I right click on the blue bar at the top of the window, the properties layout tab shows a screen width of 75. If I change it to 80 it just changes back to 75.
Regards

Geoffl

Try clicking the Maximize button, if you have not already done so.
The maximize button does not change the size of the screen - just moves the whole screen a few millimeters to the left. Is there any way to add another font? I am sure somewhere there is one which will fit.
Regards

Geoffl

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