I've run into an interesting problem. We've developed a game, Windows only,
that uses the Windows FixedSys font. On some machines, the text gets truncated.
I think I know the problem, but I'm not sure of the solution. Apparently
FixedSys doesn't scale, and if the user doesn't have the right size
installed, it will default to the closest match.
We did this because we specifically wanted a font that would be available
on all Windows systems, and we don't want to embed the font.
So... what's the workaround? Is there another fixed-width sans serif font
that ships with Windows? (Courier looks really lousy for this application.)
Should we even be using FixedSys? I argued against it in the design,
because I believed it was there for system use, not for program use--it
doesn't even show up as an available font in programs like Word or WordPad.
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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