>I have some forms for which I need to show a lot of data at one time on the form. I use a terminal font with 8 point and everything fits nicely in a textbox sized to a height of 17. The problem I am having is that it is not a true type and sometimes windows will whack out and not accept the font and substitute it for another causing oversized data in smaller text boxes and upset users.
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>I can not figure out why windows randomly does not like this standard font. I was wondering if anyone could offer a solution to the problem or even an alternative font which would work well with a 17 height text box.

If you're running Vista or later, and have ClearType turned on, you could experiment with Consolas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas