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Terry Raymond

Large fonts on new Think Pad

Hi

Has anyone encountered the problem with a new Think Pad
where the VW fonts are displayed larger than they should be?

This is under windows 7.

Terry

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Dennis smith-4

Re: Large fonts on new Think Pad

There appears to be a win7 problem where if the O/S is installed initially
with DPI settings of "font size 125% or larger", when you then change it
to 100% -- some applications still believe the 125%.

I generated a VW patch at one point -- but I don't have it -- I think
the person in the office next to me does -- I will see if I can dig it up
tomorrow.

On 6/4/2010 5:19 PM, Terry Raymond wrote:

> Hi
>
> Has anyone encountered the problem with a new Think Pad
> where the VW fonts are displayed larger than they should be?
>
> This is under windows 7.
>
> Terry
>
> ===========================================================
> Terry Raymond
> Crafted Smalltalk
> 80 Lazywood Ln.
> Tiverton, RI 02878
> (401) 624-4517 [hidden email]
> <http://www.craftedsmalltalk.com>
> ===========================================================
>
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Holger Kleinsorgen-4

Re: Large fonts on new Think Pad

another approach is to fix the OS installation, because other
applications might be affected, too.
see
http://www.rlvision.com/misc/windows_7_font_bug.asp

> There appears to be a win7 problem where if the O/S is installed initially
> with DPI settings of "font size 125% or larger", when you then change it
> to 100% -- some applications still believe the 125%.
>
> I generated a VW patch at one point -- but I don't have it -- I think
> the person in the office next to me does -- I will see if I can dig it up
> tomorrow.
>
> On 6/4/2010 5:19 PM, Terry Raymond wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Has anyone encountered the problem with a new Think Pad
>> where the VW fonts are displayed larger than they should be?
>>
>> This is under windows 7.
>>
>> Terry
>>
>> ===========================================================
>> Terry Raymond
>> Crafted Smalltalk
>> 80 Lazywood Ln.
>> Tiverton, RI 02878
>> (401) 624-4517 [hidden email]
>> <http://www.craftedsmalltalk.com>
>> ===========================================================
>>
>>
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Dennis smith-4

Re: Large fonts on new Think Pad

Right -- in fact that WAS the final solution for the laptop we had with
the problem.

I DID do a patch, but the solution noted there worked

On 6/4/2010 6:02 PM, Holger Kleinsorgen wrote:

> another approach is to fix the OS installation, because other
> applications might be affected, too.
> see
> http://www.rlvision.com/misc/windows_7_font_bug.asp
>
>> There appears to be a win7 problem where if the O/S is installed initially
>> with DPI settings of "font size 125% or larger", when you then change it
>> to 100% -- some applications still believe the 125%.
>>
>> I generated a VW patch at one point -- but I don't have it -- I think
>> the person in the office next to me does -- I will see if I can dig it up
>> tomorrow.
>>
>> On 6/4/2010 5:19 PM, Terry Raymond wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Has anyone encountered the problem with a new Think Pad
>>> where the VW fonts are displayed larger than they should be?
>>>
>>> This is under windows 7.
>>>
>>> Terry
>>>
>>> ===========================================================
>>> Terry Raymond
>>> Crafted Smalltalk
>>> 80 Lazywood Ln.
>>> Tiverton, RI 02878
>>> (401) 624-4517 [hidden email]
>>> <http://www.craftedsmalltalk.com>
>>> ===========================================================
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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Dennis smith-4

Re: Large fonts on new Think Pad

In reply to this post by Dennis smith-4

Here is the patch -- slightly modified.
Note it includes in MSWindowsFont a method "isWin7" which returns true.
We have a custom method that checks for isWin7 which my original patch calls,
so if the patch works, you can configure for Win7 checking however you like.

This appears to work at lest for VW7.7.1 and VW7.9.1.

On 2013-04-30 5:08 AM, Runar Jordahl wrote:

Do you happen to have this patch?

Kind regards

Runar Jordahl

2010/6/4 Dennis Smith <[hidden email]>

There appears to be a win7 problem where if the O/S is installed initially
with DPI settings of "font size 125% or larger", when you then change it
to 100% -- some applications still believe the 125%.

I generated a VW patch at one point -- but I don't have it -- I think
the person in the office next to me does -- I will see if I can dig it up
tomorrow.

On 6/4/2010 5:19 PM, Terry Raymond wrote:
> Hi
>
> Has anyone encountered the problem with a new Think Pad
> where the VW fonts are displayed larger than they should be?
>
> This is under windows 7.
>
> Terry
>
> ===========================================================
> Terry Raymond
> Crafted Smalltalk
> 80 Lazywood Ln.
> Tiverton, RI <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:02878" value="+4702878">02878
> (401) 624-4517 [hidden email]
> <http://www.craftedsmalltalk.com>
> ===========================================================
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> vwnc mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc
>

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