Need to have larger fonts in dialog boxes and for menu items on the Solaris platform

[Sharon Veach]

Thanx a bunch - I'll find an X resources person here and locate the online
manuals.  And I hadn't thought of lowering the screen resolution. 
Will try some stuff, Sharon

Peter Gold wrote:
> Hi, Sharon:
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Sharon Veach <sharon.read at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi:
>>
>> Second try, more platform information.
>> I am running Frame on a Solaris system on a GNOME desktop.  The GNOME
>> desktop preferences fonts do not affect the font of anything in Frame -
>> not the menus,
>> not the default text size in the window, not the size of the initial
>> Frame menu box.
>>
>> How can I increase the font size of menu items and dialog box fonts from
>> within Frame?
>>
>> I can increase the font size where I type, but I am having difficulty
>> seeing
>> the fonts in dialog boxes. The File Open dialog box is particularly
>> tricky, since
>> it is the first one that comes up, and its font size is minute.
>>
>> In EPIC, you can pass the fonts to the application by running the
>> following command
>> in a shell:
>>
>> epic -font encoding:iso88591-family:helvetica-size:14
>>
>> When I try that with Frame, the format of the font is not recognized:
>>
>> maker -font encoding:iso88591-family:helvetica-size:14
>>
>> Frame returns the message:
>> **Warning: Cannot convert string
>> "encoding:iso88591-family:helvetica-size:16" to type FontStruct **
>>
>> So, what is the magic format where a font encoding is readable by Frame,
>> and then Frame can turn it
>> into a FontStruct that Frame recognizes?
>>
>> Thanx for any pointers,
>> Sharon
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>>     
>
> Look for the PDF or .fm document "Customizing Frame Products" in the
> onlinemanuals directory in your FM installation tree. It may be in the
> fminit directory. I believe that Unix FM is the only FM version that
> permits customizing the fonts in dialog boxes. I may be wrong on this
> - it may only customize fonts in catalog titles, like Character Format
> catalog and Paragraph Format catalog, and menu titles and options.
>
> Many unix FM properties are configurable via x-resources. I seem to
> recall that an x-resource can set fonts.
>
> Another approach is to lower your screen resolution to show less real
> estate at a larger size.
>
> HTH
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
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