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05/12/2002 13:44:01
 
 
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05/12/2002 13:21:51
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Visual FoxPro
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00728518
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>I believe that Windows internals does handle the fonts themselves properly but that it is the "whitespace" where its handling fails. Simplistically, I would say that Windows fails to scale the whitespace as it does with the fonts.
>
>I feel strongly about this for a simple reason: I get many Word documents with tables in them and in many cases those tables format POORLY on my "Large Fonts" systems yet look perfectly fine on my "Normal Fonts" displays. Invariably there is word-wrap happening in the "Large Fonts" display, causing the cells to be larger and look lousy.
>I have the same kind of thing on both home-grown and external web pages. In virtually ALL cases, the fonts in question are standard and scalable.
>
>Have I changed your mind?


So you are saying that Windows should take care that my buttons resize appropiately if a particular user prefers, or needs, large fonts so I do not have to make the buttos extra wide to accomodete any font growth? That'll be nice. But I'm not sure I should expect that as a given.


Alex Feldstein, MCP, Microsoft MVP
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