Re: [Fontforge-devel] FontForge, X11 & Tiger on a tibook

[George W. <gw...@si...>]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 09:46, Dharmachari Padmavyuha wrote:
> Having just peered into the abyss that is the word of font design, as
> seen through the X11 window on my mac (and mustering enough
> self-discipline to avoid any 'baptism' and 'font' jokes), I have a
> question about the FontForge UI: is there any way I can increase the
> size of the menubar/menu etc. display fonts? My eyes are not what they
> used to be, and I'm not X11-savvy enough to know if there's some
> variable I need to tweak (there's nothing in the prefs, as far as I
> could see).
No, it isn't exactly in prefs. It uses an X11 mechanism for providing
resources.

The problem is that ff doesn't know the screen's resolution (because X11
doesn't) and so it generally makes a bad guess. You can fix this by
setting the appropriate resource which looks like:
	Gdraw.ScreenWidthInches: 10
	Gdraw.ScreenWidthPixels: 1024
(or whatever). If the fonts are still to small, you might want to lie
about the ScreenWidthInches line, and make it smaller than it actually
should be.
	(see http://fontforge.sf.net/xres.html for more info)

Now, where do you put these things? The standard thing to do is create a
file called .Xdefaults in your home directory. On some systems that will
be read automagically when X11 starts up. I don't think the mac is one
of those, however.

So start up fontforge, and now go to File->Prefs->Generic and enter
	/Users/padmavyuha/.Xdefaults
into the ResourceFile textfield. and [OK] the preference dlg.

Then restart fontforge.