topic Re: DECTerm fonts in Operating System - OpenVMS

DECTerm fonts

Dan Holm — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:32:47 GMT

Is there a way to 'scale' fonts in a DECTerm? The dec-terminal font seems to jump from size 14 to 28, so to get something in the middle I'm forced to use the bitstream-terminal font which is much less attractive for programming work. I'd like to take the 14 or 28 dec-terminal font and scale it to, say, 16 or 18.

I tried setting the terminal width and height manually, thinking it might calculate a new font size using those numbers, but it seemed to ignore them.

Re: DECTerm fonts

Martin Vorlaender — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:50:32 GMT

Hi,

one way would be:

- locate the BDF source file for a -dec-terminal font (e.g. http://casper.ghostscript.com/~raph/term14g.bdf )

- get (e.g. from http://openlab.jp/efont/dist/tools/bdfresize/bdfresize-1.5.tar.gz ) and build bdfresize on VMS; use it to re-scale the BDF file

- use the font compiler and mkfontdir to install the font.

Disclaimer: I have not tried step 2.

HTH,
Martin

Re: DECTerm fonts

Martin Vorlaender — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:18:32 GMT

Dan,

I wrote
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Disclaimer: I have not tried step 2.
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Okay, so now I have. It took some tweaking but finally I got a working bdfresize.exe (see attachment) and used it to resize term14g.bdf by 3/2 to term21g.bdf.

HTH,
Martin