Hussein Shafie wrote: > I personally work on a Windows XP 1600x1050 laptop, therefore I know how > painful is using tiny fonts. Here's what I did: > > * I changed the windows setup to use large fonts because without this > the menu, buttons, etc, fonts were much to small for any application, > not only XXE. > > * I used Options|Options, Style Tab and changed to default font size > from 12pt to 14pt. > > * I used Options|Options, Style Tab and changed the Monospaced font from > Monospaced (it seems to be an alias for "Courier New" on Windows) to > "Lucida Console". > > After this, I got a usable XXE.
Thank you very much for your quick and helpful anwsers. I've already made a similar customization, except for the 'large fonts' setting (I got a physically larger display, instead). > > The fact that 12pt is rendered like 9pt fonts in native Windows > applications is something controlled by the Java runtime , not by us. > Therefore it is not easy to improve this situation. A Google search confirm this. I seems that there is a font scaling bug in Sun's Java runtime for Windows, and that Sun apparently refuses to correct it. As I suspected, the Windows screen resolution is always assumed to be 72 dpi. However, my search also find pointers to sites with solutions (or workarounds) to this problem. I think these are the most promising ones, in case you decide to address this question in some future version of XXE: http://www.3rd-evolution.de/tkrammer/docs/java_font_size.html http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?thread=424811&forum=57&message=1955818 https://looks.dev.java.net/ Thanks again for your support. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Manuel Collado Machuca | Facultad de Informatica UPM Universidad Politecnica de Madrid | Campus de Montegancedo Dep. LSIIS | Boadilla del Monte Tel.+34-91-336.74.57 Fax.+34-91-336.74.12 | 28660 MADRID - SPAIN ------------------------------------------------------------------------
