making tool bar font larger on Picassa

[danis]

I find the font on Picassa's tool bar hard to read. Is there anyway I
can make it larger?

[mhenriday]

On 20 Sep, 19:45, danis <dangran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I find the font on Picassa's tool bar hard to read. Is there anyway I
> can make it larger?

Danis, so far as I have been able to discover, Picasa offers no way to
do adjust font size or style. The only way to increase font size that
I can imagine would be to adjust your monitor's resolution so that
fewer pixels are displayed, which would then correspondingly increase
the size of each pixel....

Henri

[Stephen]

In my GUI Toolbar menu on GNU/Linux running relatively plain jane Openbox without a desktop environment; I have a fly-out menu Picasa/Picasa;Picasa Font Settings.

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[Stephen]

Here's a screenshot to illustrate what I have.

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[mhenriday]

On 25 Sep, 18:43, Stephen <stephen.d.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a screenshot to illustrate what I have.
>
> [image: Screenshot-Picasa Font Configure.png]

Thanks for the screenshot, Stephen ! Did you get there from the
Picasa 3.8 toolbar on a Linux box ? I haven't been able to do so on my
64-bit Ubuntu 11.04 machine ; perhaps I'm missing something ? I do
recall seeing and using that option on earlier versions of Picasa, but
can't seem to find it now. In any event, if I remember correctly,
selecting another font than Tahoma won't affect font size in any
significant manner (which is what the OP desired) - rather, I recall
using this option to enable certain East Asian fonts for CJK captions
in Picasa....

Henri

[Stephen]

No it's from within the window manager environment. Installed Picasa 3.0 from Google (not my distribution package system) and then installed 3.8. 

Henri

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[mhenriday]

Den måndagen den 26:e september 2011 kl. 22:26:51 UTC+2 skrev Stephen Allen:

No it's from within the window manager environment. Installed Picasa 3.0 from Google (not my distribution package system) and then installed 3.8.

 
Alas, despite devoting a fair amount of time and effort to this matter, I've still been unable to find any way to access this «Picasa Font Configure» box on my Ubuntu machine. So can it go !...

Henri

[Stephen]

Well I started out with the 3.0 install from Google and didn't delete it; just over-wrote the relevant files in Picasa when installing 3.8. Perhaps that's the difference?

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[mhenriday]

Den torsdagen den 29:e september 2011 kl. 19:57:03 UTC+2 skrev Stephen Allen:

Well I started out with the 3.0 install from Google and didn't delete it; just over-wrote the relevant files in Picasa when installing 3.8. Perhaps that's the difference?

Given the fact that I, too, have good old 3.0 installed om my box, I don't think that's the problem. Could it instead be due to the fact that you're running a different Linux distro than I am (Ubuntu) ? How did you access the window manager you mentioned above ? I haven't found anything under «System» → «Settings» in Ubuntu that takes me to the «Picasa Font Configure» box shown in your screenshot....

Henri

[Stephen]

The install of Picasa 3.0 installed that in my window manager by default. 

I've done some digging and I think I've found the answer for you. 

In '/opt/google/picasa/3.0/desktop' You should find some files that will enable one to customize the desktop on a particular distro using an unusual window manager (other than KDE or Gnome apparently). 

OK so in the above directory one will find a 'picasa-fontcfg.desktop' file. Upon viewing this one finds that the font config binary path is; '/opt/google/picasa/3.0/bin/picasafontcfg'.

With this information an advanced user like yourself will probably have no problem adding this to your menu system. HTH Henri.

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[mhenriday]

Den torsdagen den 29:e september 2011 kl. 21:27:32 UTC+2 skrev Stephen Allen:

The install of Picasa 3.0 installed that in my window manager by default. 

I've done some digging and I think I've found the answer for you. 

In '/opt/google/picasa/3.0/desktop' You should find some files that will enable one to customize the desktop on a particular distro using an unusual window manager (other than KDE or Gnome apparently). 

OK so in the above directory one will find a 'picasa-fontcfg.desktop' file. Upon viewing this one finds that the font config binary path is; '/opt/google/picasa/3.0/bin/picasafontcfg'.

With this information an advanced user like yourself will probably have no problem adding this to your menu system. HTH Henri.

It was of great help, indeed, Stephen - not least because a «picasafontcfg» is found under /opt/google/picasa/3.0/bin even in Gnome2. Many thanks ! As evident from the first screenshot attached here, my recollection of having added other fonts to the default «Tahoma» in order to display CJK text was no mere illusion. Of perhaps greater significance to the OP danis, however, is the fact that if one opens the «Menufont» tab in the «Picasa Font Configure» box (see the second screenshot), one can adjust both font style and size for Picasa menus. Danis doesn't state which Linux version he or she is using, but the above should prove of help in increasing the legibility of the Picasa menu bar. Cool !...  

Henri

[Stephen]

Excellent.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:17 PM, mhenriday <mhen...@gmail.com> wrote:

indeed, Stephen

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[The Real Bev]

On 09/29/2011 04:38 PM, Stephen wrote:

> Excellent.
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:17 PM, mhenriday <mhen...@gmail.com

> <mailto:mhen...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> indeed, Stephen

Indeed excellent. Now, does anybody know how to change the fonts for
the subdirectory list?

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