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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

2886.0. "Naive user needs font help" by KL2102::COBB (OSI, OSF, Oh my aching back!) Wed Jun 06 1990 11:06

I just upgraded my firefox to T5.4-4FGE, and now that 
I've done this, the default fonts used by decw 
applications are larger, but the width of text windows
is not correspondingly larger (for instance, in Notes,
the Edit window is only about 60 chars wide).

I assume this has something to do with basic conflict
between 75 and 100 dpi fonts, but I'll be damned to 
figure out what has changed. 

btw, DEC$FONT looks like:

   "DECW$FONT" = "DECW$SYSCOMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.USER_CURSOR32]" (DECW$SERVER0_TAB
LE)
        = "DECW$SYSCOMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.CURSOR32]"
        = "DECW$SYSCOMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.USER_CURSOR16]"
        = "DECW$SYSCOMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.CURSOR16]"
        = "DECW$SYSCOMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.USER_100DPI]"
        = "DECW$SYSCOMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.100DPI]"
        = "DECW$SYSCOMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.USER_75DPI]"
        = "DECW$SYSCOMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.75DPI]"
 
Sooo, 
	1) Some previous notes said to look in 
	decw$private_server_setup.com for help with 
	this.  I vaguely remember seeing this before,
	but the version I just installed doesn't talk
	about fonts.  How do I get back to the way I 
	was (fat, dumb, and happy)?

	2) Is it a design flaw that applications don't
	deal well with a change from 75 to 100 dpi 
	fonts?  Seems to me that an object oriented
	system such as DECWindows would be able to hide
	this from an application.

Thanks for your help...
Danny
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