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  • Subject: Re: Rumba fonts
  • From: jdraper@xxxxxxx (Jerry Draper)
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:49:13 -0700 (PDT)

>We've recently started using the TCP/IP version of Rumba that came with
>Client Access in place of the old PC Support version. Our users are
>complaining that the fonts are much harder to read in the new version
>than in the old. I don't blame them. I'm baffled as to why IBM or Wall
>Data (whoever was responsible) would change a nice clear font for such a
>spindly and anaemic specimen. There must be a good reason, but that's by
>the by.

I've seen this one before.  If a vendor uses Windows fonts they can scale
the fonts millimeter by millimeter which looks impressive when you are
sizing a window.  However, you can't read the fonts.  Furthermore, Windows
fonts do not have the complete AS400 character set so some characters are
not displayed (ie:  dup).

Synapse (www.synapse.com) solved this problem in their WinAPPC by generating
a font set specific to the AS400 with all the required AS400 characters that
are completely readable in all sizes.

Regards, Jerry



Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, Andrew, MI, DCI, Netsoft, etc.
(415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com

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