Thank you both so much for replying. I've actually posted to bugzilla about this, but then had the second thought that maybe the list will have a simple answer.
Yes, there is something odd about the font list as revealed by put. Which is the same incidentally as the font list offered by the text menu. It has: courier 10 pitch bitsream charter lucida typewriter lucida bright lucida times new century schoolbook helvetica clean fixed. Now, this is about 10% of the total system fonts. I have used both gedit and firefox to check what fonts other apps can see. They can both see all 100 installed fonts. They can also display them at any size I pick. OpenOffice does also, but this is not the best guide since it has its own peculiarities about how it handles fonts. Gedit however just uses the X11 fonts as installed, as far as I know. What I'm doing to generate the size problem (or the selection problem) is this. I take an object, say a field, and place it on a new card. I type in some text, select it. I can select any of the above fonts, but only those, and they display properly at the default size. I then either use the text menu or the properties menu and try to make the font size bigger. Up to 24 point all goes well, the size increases as expected, and displays as expected. I then pick 36, which is the next size up in the menu. The text immediately reverts to something like 12, maybe smaller. So there are two things happening which seem like they shouldn't be - at least, they don't happen like this in any other application. One is that you can't pick a lot of the fonts which other applications can see and pick. The second is that even for the ones you can pick, I can't seem to use any size over 24. The thing I can't figure out is, where Revolution is getting its font list from, and how to either point it someplace else or put the other fonts there. But its equally mysterious why it will only allow some sizes and not others for the ones it sees! And it really would be nice to be able to use wingdings or symbol or whatever.... Peter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
