I think the issue is that Windows may round up to the nearest font. 8pt at 120DPI is 10pt (120/96 * 8) 10pt calculates to 12.5pt which becomes 14 pt 12pt calculates to 15pt which becomes 18pt.
So things start getting out of scale compared to the surounding components. Ross. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:09 PM Subject: SPAM-LOW: RE: [DUG] Large Fonts/DPI Sorry to be thick - Do you know what choices are usually there for MS sans serif under 120DPI? (I am using like 8/10/12/14 - would have thought they were there) Or is it just much safer to switch to Arial? John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Levis Sent: Monday, 7 August 2006 2:13 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: RE: [DUG] Large Fonts/DPI Ah, no. MS Sans Serif does not scale. It has only a selection of sizes available. You need a TrueType font. I changed all my forms to use Arial to get proper scalling. Ross. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 2:03 PM Subject: SPAM-LOW: RE: [DUG] Large Fonts/DPI The problem I am having is quite limited and specific.....font size in a grid The form I am having trouble with is optionally being scaled using scaleby (works fine)... the font for the grid is set to a user choice value. When running on a screen at 120DPI the font size I set (eg 6 or 8 or 10 point) in the grid seems to be either ignored or treated in some bizarre way - I get a huge font that I would say looks like 12/14 point or larger... The font is the default grid font, MS Sans Serif, according to my research should scale fine and be on all versions Windows (eg see http://www.angelfire.com/al4/rcollins/style/fonts.html ) Handy font reference for universally available fonts. Musings: Is the MS Sans Serif font the problem? Cos I can change it programmatically if that's all it is. From my research it looks like MS Sans Serif should be a safe font to use.... I will also experiment with what you suggest using scaleby, as I am already using this anyway (as you say it does a pretty good job) - but shooting in the dark as I don't have such a 120DPI screen here.. As for saying "don't use large fonts" I don't think I can do that as the PC was set up by a network provider who set the large fonts to get the fancy new big LCD screen to work best with the old PC's version of windows (windows 98 in most cases) and my software is just one of the programs being used.....unless there is no other choice! ;) John _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi __________ NOD32 1.1461 (20060329) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
