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    GUI font for vision challenged people

    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Aleph
    • Product Version: 19.01

    Description:
    For a cataloger who is vision challenged, the GUI font can be increased to make it generally more readable, but the actual cataloging window then becomes fuzzy and the bottom of the lines are cut off, and punctuation is invisible.
    Is there anything we can change in GUI settings to make the cataloging window display clearer and still bigger than normal?

    Resolution:
    [From site: ]
    What appeared to work was:
    Windows font size extra large
    Screen resolution 1280x1024
    DPI 96

    and the following font.ini file:
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-!!!!-!!!!-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-!-!-!-!!-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    EditorTag 0000 FFFF Courier Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    EditorField 0000 00FF Tahoma Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    EditorField 0384 03CE Tahoma Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    EditorField 0401 045F Tahoma Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    EditorField 05D0 05EA Tahoma Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    EditorField 0000 FFFF Arial Unicode MS Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    EditorDescription 0000 00FF Tahoma Y Y N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    EditorDescription 0401 045F Tahoma Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    EditorDescription 0384 03CE Tahoma Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    EditorDescription 05D0 05EA Tahoma Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    EditorDescription 0000 FFFF Bitstream Cyberbit Y Y N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ListBoxCaption 0000 00FF Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ListBoxCaption 0401 045F Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ListBoxCaption 0384 03CE Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ListBoxCaption 05D0 05EA Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ListBoxCaption 0000 FFFF Bitstream Cyberbit N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ListBox## 0000 00FF Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ListBox## 0401 045F Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ;ListBox## 0384 03CE Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ListBox## 05D0 05EA Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ListBox## 0000 FFFF Arial Unicode MS Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    UnicodeEdit 0000 00FF Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    UnicodeEdit 0401 045F Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    UnicodeEdit 0384 03CE Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    UnicodeEdit 05D0 05EA Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    UnicodeEdit 0000 FFFF Arial Unicode MS N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ShortPreview 0000 00FF Courier New Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ShortPreview 0401 045F Courier New Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ShortPreview 0384 03CE Courier New Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ShortPreview 05D0 05EA Courier New Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ShortPreview 0000 FFFF Arial Unicode MS Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    WindowControls 0000 FFFF Tahoma N N N 14 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    TabDisabled 0000 FFFF Tahoma N Y N 14 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    TabNormal 0000 FFFF Tahoma N N N 14 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    TabSelect 0000 FFFF Tahoma N N Y 14 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    ;TextBar 0000 FFFF Tahoma Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    TextBar 0000 FFFF Arial Unicode MS Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    AlephKeyboard 0000 00FF Tahoma Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    AlephKeyboard 0401 045F Tahoma Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    AlephKeyboard 0384 03CE Tahoma Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    AlephKeyboard 05D0 05EA Tahoma Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    AlephKeyboard 0000 FFFF Arial Unicode MS Y N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    NavigationTab 0000 FFFF Tahoma N N N 16 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    NavigationTree 0000 FFFF Tahoma N N N 18 DEFAULT_CHARSET

    Additional Information

    GUI, font


    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013