25/11/03 Kerwin : >I have successfully hacked Emailer to change the font (mine is set to >Lucida Grande Bold for that "OS X" look)
The interface font name is the first string of the STR# ressource ID 512 of the Emailer application. It's safe to change that to any other available font using ResEdit (while Emailer is not running), but bear in mind that NOTHING has a better size/legibility ratio than un-antialiased Geneva 9, because Geneva 9 was hand-tuned pixel by pixel for that very purpose. A few fonts may have comparable quality, but not better. Verdana 9 could be used for a change. >but unfortunately, not the SIZE of the font There are some weird things going on with interface font sizes in Emailer. It MUST be somewhere, but maybe not in Emailer itself! (some Geneva 12 items in Emailer like folder lists menus change sizes when you change the system menu font size using something like Kaleidoscope) So maybe the "9" size is linked to a system value somewhere. Maybe it used to reflect some setting that broke since system 7 or something. That would have made sense. Some help from the dev team would be useful here. >My father has the same issue as you, and I have been unable >to help him. The only easy workaround is to lower the screen resolution (take a 20" monitor and set it to 800 x 600 for example). It's only logical that bad sight requires bigger monitors. You should also try LCD monitors, which are MUCH sharper than CRT. LCDs only have ONE native resolution, don't choose a higher res one to zoom it by software: prefer more reasonable Apple monitors that tend to have sharper and bigger pixels (if I recall correctly, the SGI 17.6" had the same resolution as the first Apple Cinema 22", which was much more comfortable). 1024 x 768 is extremely legible on some low cost 15" LCD (or consider the 14" iBook or an old 14" PowerBook G3 against the 12" iBook with the same 1024 x 768 resolution). > I do not believe there is a way to make the font any larger >than it is normally. >Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I've been having a foolish idea: one should be able to design a bitmap font that claims to be "9 point" but has bigger glyphs (the "point size" is not deduced from the actual appearance, it's given by the typographist). Then change Emailer's STR# ID 512 to use that font instead of Geneva. I bet a good candidate would be a copy of Geneva 12 mocking up as "Bigeneva 9". This would cause display glitches in tight interface items like buttons, but I guess nobody reads them anymore since there is no such thing as a new user of Emailer. Bitmap font creation used to be a fairly popular hobby, does anyone have a bitmap font creation tool of choice? Vector stuff like Fontographer is bloated and overkill and ResEdit's basic editor won't display changes unless using a 1 bit monitor (black and white), which I'm currently out of ;-) I might give it a shot on that A4 LC under the kitchen table though, specially if a few people ask for it and offer some free beers. Or burgers. Or whatever. A carrot. Send me ALL your carrots. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
