Wow. Just last month I posted essentially a more verbose duplicate of
Xavier's post from last October. In case the threading is broken and
you want to see Xavier's post in its entirety:
https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/202110/msg00266.html
For reference, mine from this May was
https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/202205/msg00199.html
Which in turn referred to another post by me in 2016:
https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201608/msg00263.html
The one from last month was titled "Fonts in ACS". And, amazingly, I
also used that exact title for a tangentially related post in 2017
(mainly dealing with the interaction between font sizes and window
settings):
https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201708/msg00133.html
To complete the circle (before it repeats itself in a few years), I'll
do a quick response to Patrik:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 4:00 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Xavier,
Am 19.10.2021 um 08:12 schrieb x y <xy6581@xxxxxxxxx>:
I'd previously reported an issue with adding fonts to iACS and I think I've stumbled onto the answer.
A fresh installation of iACS apparently creates this (empty) directory:
C:\Users\Public\IBM\ClientSolutions\Fonts
While this might be an answer in access-restricted environments, I'd suggest to add fonts to the OS to lessen the chance of surprises aka "Why can't I see this damned font in Word?". :-)
No, the entire reason for all of these "how do I add fonts to ACS"
threads is that ACS does NOT pick up the system fonts in Windows (it's
not clear to me if it does on Mac). Adding the desired fonts to the OS
is the first thing that everyone has tried.
And yeah, before everyone does a knee-jerk pile-on denigrating
Windows, just keep in mind that the seemingly obvious things to do for
any application intended to run on Windows are
1. Pick up the OS fonts (just as it would be the obvious thing to do
for any OS).
2. Let the OS do the font rendering, since this will produce the best
results visually.
Why does ACS fail at both of those things? Why do so many
applications, not only written by Microsoft but by scores of
third-party developers, commercial as well as open source,
Windows-specific or multiplatform, get those two things right? (And I
would think those two things are related, so if you get one, then you
automatically or at least trivially get the other.)
ACS seems to do things in an ancient, long-out-of-favor Java way. Most
newer Java applications work well and look good on Windows, in terms
of font availability and rendering.
John Y.
midrange.com
