Msg: Re: vDosxy3 -- changing default font?

Carl,

That's an intriguing suggestion, but I'm not sure my PATH statement is working. For testing, I've used

USE C: ./

which makes the vDos folder the c directory.

Fonts are in c:\windows\fonts; I've tried varieties of that path in the autoexec.txt PATH statement, to no effect so far. How exactly should it read?

For the record, the F/'font' command in config.txt does alter the printed output. It's just that the results don't resemble any of the Courier fonts specified by the command. The only accurately represented Courier font is the default, Courier New.

Thanks.

From: Carl Distefano
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: vDosxy3 -- changing default font?

Reply to note from "John Paines" mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx
(Redacted sender "mailto:vf200@xxxxxxxx" for DMARC) Sat, 20 Dec 2014
00:49:43 +0000 (UTC)

John,

> A simple question for any and all vDosxy3 users: has anyone
> succeeding in changing the default Courier New font and getting
> an accurate representation of the chosen alternative font?

It took me a while to wrap my head around your question as I rarely
print from XyWrite (or any other program, for that matter). But the
answer, after some trying, is yes, I have succeeded in doing so. I
didn't ot try to change the default font, but I did get
DOSPrinter.exe to put out an accurate reprsentation of a Windows
TrueType font (in my case, 1914 WOODSTOCK Typewriter). The key, I
believe, is to make sure that the Windows font directory is in the
vDos Path. (On my Win 7 system, the directory is C:\Windows\Font).
Edit AUTOEXEC.TXT to add the appropriate directory to the Path
statement and see if it makes a difference.

By the way, there's much better documentation of DOSPrinter.exe
here:

http://dosprinter.net/#Usage

than in the DOSPrinter.pdf that's bundled with vDosXy.

Hope this helps.

--
Carl Distefano
mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx