Font size problems

[Kris Kabza]

I am having a rough time getting fonts to match on a number of PCs. I've checked other posts, but I can not seem to make headway.

I am running CVI 5.5 on a remote Sun system. I use Exceed to display a terminal on my PC. From there, I run and display CVI 5.5. I am also running CVI 6.0 locally on my PC (that is, I am not using Exceed to go to a Sun machine).

I've attached a .jpg screen capture that has 4 images on it. The top two images are of the CVI 6.0 that is running on my PC. The bottom two images are from the 5.5, being displayed on my PC. I blanked out my buttons on the bottom menu bar.

I obviously have some kind of font issue. This runs correctly on other PCs displaying the CVI 5.5 information.

Any ideas?

-Kris

[Pierre_63]

I have a font pb too. I use 2 PCs. With my new PC ( 15'4 screen ) the panels seems ok but not the strings. What can I do to run CVI sample with good labels ?.

[Wendy L]

Hello Kris,

When you say that "This runs correctly on other PCs displaying the CVI 5.5 information", does that mean that you have gotten the font to appear correctly when you remotely connect to your Unix machine from another PC, or when you run CVI 5.5 locally on another PC?

If you remotely connect from PC to PC (via remote desktop, etc), do you still see the strange font behavior with CVI 5.5 and/or 6.0, or does this behavior only appear when you connect to your Sun machine via Exceed?

It turns out that the default font we use in Solaris is a bold font. This is because the non-bold font doesn't show up well and the bold font matches the OS font for windows titles, etc. You can set the font in the UI Editor to something different than default to fix the issue.

[Kris Kabza]

Wendy,
Using the .Xdefaults file definitely helps. However, not all fonts seem to be mapped. For example, I have a 10 point NiDialog font on one control that is still bold. But, that's okay, I'll just change the font to a 12 point NiDialogMetaFont.

I'd like to try a few other fonts. Other than the "linotype-helvetica" font in the .Xdefaults file, what are a few other valid fonts to try?

-Kris

[Wendy L]

Hello Kris,

I do not have any specifics about which fonts will work. The best bet would be to do trial and error using the format specified in the Xdefaults file. Another solution that I came across would be to apply Sun patch 105633-05. This fixes bug ID 4060341 refered to in the KnowledgeBase. The patch is attached. Uncompress it. Untar it. Run installpatch. Restart the X server.

Hope that helps.