Maybe U already have that Cleartype setting turned on - as suggested by Ken...
-K- -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eurico Chagas Filho Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Screen Design, Fonts & Win7 vs. WinXP I use Tahoma and it looks the same on both Win OSes. E. >________________________________ > From: Kurt Wendt <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:37 PM >Subject: Screen Design, Fonts & Win7 vs. WinXP > > >As many of you know - I've been doing this Screen Hacking stuff - as part of >a utility to generate Screens/Forms - based upon older system PRG files. > > > >So - We are now doing testing of the new screens - and my Boss noticed that >the Fonts on the screen looked like SHIT when running on WinXP - even the >SAME Screen design looked just FINE when running under Win7. > > > >All our Dev. here is done on Win7 PC's. But, we also have an XP machine here >they use for testing & Client support. And, since many of the clients still >use XP - the programs must work under Win7 & XP. > > > >The font I'm using for the main screen field labels is Arial - 12 - not >Bold. When view on XP - they come out looking REALLY Skinny! Also, the font >on the menu buttons - is Times New Roman - 12 - Bold Italic. The buttons >look Great on Win7 - but, under XP - they actually look fuzzy - almost like >I am looking at a screenshot image with Compression Artifacts - even though >I am actually looking at a running system. > > > >Am open to suggestions! Are they other Fonts that look better than what I am >using? Is there some Standard that I should follow? > > > >Whatever Fonts I implement on these 1st set of screens - its what will be >used through out the Entire System Re-design! > > > >TIA, > >-K- > > > >--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- >multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html >--- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CCAB06B957704C60B984F1269D8160AA@Programming2 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
