On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 05:45 pm, Terry North wrote: > Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay <at> internode.on.net> writes: > > I have recently installed OO2.0 on FreeBSD5.4. It seems > > that the display size > > is rather restricted. ... But altering this Scaling seems to > also affect the sizes in the work spaces so that a centimetre > in a drawing displays as around one and a half centimetres. > Is there some way to control these independently? .... > > > But a much worse problem is the ghastly hard-to-read > > non-serif fonts popularised by Microsoft and used in menus, > > help, etc. > > > > In the same set of options I can mark "Use system font for > > user interface", but this seems to do nothing and in any > > case I don't know to what "system font" refers. > > > > I had expected that replacing the "interface User" font in > > Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->Fonts would deal with this > > problem but it has no effect on menus, help etc. Was this > > the intent? Does it work on other platforms? What is the > > intended purpose of the pseudo font? > > > > Can anyone enlighten me? > > > > Malcolm Kay > > I understand that altering the scaling is supposed to affect > only the UI.
I guess in part this depends on what you consider part of the UI. Certainly under FreeBSD the display size of opjects in the drawing work area change with scaling. With zoom set at 100% then the 1cm grid measures around 13mm when the scaling is set to 130%. > On the replacement issue, the README file in the > openoffice.org2.0 directory (the directory in which the > programme is installed) states "To change the font of the > OpenOffice.org user interface, you have to replace the default > font "Andale Sans UI" with another font and mark the "always" > setting for this replacement." The default font is not > actually listed, you have to type it in. Thanks, this does work but even with scaling set to 130% I'm still finding the menu/help foants less than comfortable in size. > > I've got a related problem in that, for ease of visibility, I > have increased font sizes using the KDE tool and the increased > fonts show up in the OpenOffice UI generally but not in the > dialogs so that, if I use scaling to increase the dialog > fonts, I get too much size in the UI generally. I don't use a KDE desktop just an occassional KDE utility such as kmail. But I wonder what you mean by the "KDE tool". kcontrol->Appearance&Themes->Fonts allows me to change menu sizes in for example kmail but has no effect in non KDE applications. Or perhaps KDE has a font server with a configuration file that can set the effective ratio of pixels to points or how many pixels per inch should be used in scaling the fonts. I have a X font server running with the resolution set at 120 pixels/inch which means that the fonts come out pretty much at there correct point size. The problem as I see it is that the point size called up for the UI is just too small -- at least for my aging eyes. I could set this to say 150 to get all fonts displaying larger but they would not then be the programmed point size for any application. > It may be > that your OS enables you to alter font settings system-wide, > in which case those settings will be mirrored in OpenOffice, > except in the dialogs. Hope this helps. > Thanks for your response, Malcolm --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
