>IT IS A FACT that if I do the same experiment with 16 or 18 (or any other, I suppose) size font, the font point size does not change, and thus becomes misaligned (and ugly, IMO).
I guess this is with the default Arial font? Many fonts in Windows are not fully scalable, so that is an additional problem. Even if you ask the Windows API to scale a font to some particular size it may decide to refuse to do that and there is usually no good explanation from the API for that, nor a meaningful error. It's almost impossible to try to be smarter than the API you are using and the alternative would be to license a complete Adobe True Type manager font engine and built it into LabVIEW, and create other problems as the LabVIEW fonts may then be nicer but not anymore behaving like other Windows applications. Not to speak about the problem for a company like NI trying to deal with a technology on their own, many other and more specialized companies have miserably failt at already. Rolf K