tedbragg opened this issue on Dec 07, 2004 ยท 7 posts
tedbragg posted Tue, 07 December 2004 at 11:09 AM
I cannot read Poser's display font for dials, under the document window, the libraries, etc. I want to change it to a smaller, sans-serif font. Right now it's too big, and I can't read the name of dials or props easily. How can this be done? Which font file(s) is Poser calling up for its stuff?
TygerCub posted Tue, 07 December 2004 at 3:11 PM
This would be handy to know for P4 too... bookmark
lmckenzie posted Tue, 07 December 2004 at 7:22 PM
Been discussed and tried many times--no answer so far. Poser AFAIK isn't using A normal Windows font file.
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SamTherapy posted Tue, 07 December 2004 at 8:50 PM
I think it's possible in P5 but I'm damned if I can remember how. I seem to remember a discussion about it - and other P5 tricks - at PoserPros.
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tedbragg posted Tue, 07 December 2004 at 9:06 PM
I'm on the Mac version. Once Poser launched and had Courier. It was a nightmare to look at, but proved the font can be changed.
Tyger_purr posted Tue, 07 December 2004 at 9:29 PM
I know you can change the size. but i dont think you can change the typeface. I made the size of my text bigger when i removed the dial graphic and shortened the dial area. i do occationaly have a problem when the name is long and overruns onto the values.
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lmckenzie posted Wed, 08 December 2004 at 12:26 PM
In P4 at least, if you exceed a certain number of lolders in a category eg. Poses, the dial text becomes truncated. Reducing the number of folders will fix that. In P4 (PC) there are a couple of files one is ASIFont.fon (IIRC) looking inside one in a text editor I found the name Altura Software. A little research seems to indicate that Poser was originally ported to the PC using their product Mac2Win. I don't know what they may have done regarding fonts but my hunch is that fonts are somehow embedded/interpreted/who knows. There's a reference to "mono" in the .fon file as well as "FONTRES 100,96,96". The file asifont.map contains a list of font names. How any of this is related, I don't know. If you're brave, you can make a backup copy of the files and play around with them in a hex editor and see if it changes anything. I'm doubtful because this has been an issue for a long time and I'd think that Meta or CL would have provided a fix if it were that easy.
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