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FixedSys Font for Text in Control

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Alex Rozentuller

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Apr 7, 2003, 11:46:36 AM4/7/03
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Hi,
Our product has been using the FixedSys font for the past
8 years to display Text in a Textbox/ComboBox. It seems
like VB.NET does not allow me to set the font to FixedSys
anymore (even though FixedSys is installed and I can set
the IDE Code to display in FixedSys).

What is Microsoft's official stance on the FixedSys font?
Has it been removed or am I doing something wrong? If it
has been removed, Why and is there any way I can still use
it?

Any help on this topic will be greatly appreciated

Thanks,
Alex

Alex Rozentuller

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Apr 8, 2003, 9:30:06 PM4/8/03
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Kevin Tao [MSFT]

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Apr 16, 2003, 5:32:53 PM4/16/03
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Hi Alex,

Windows Forms uses GDI+ for rendering text, as opposed to GDI which is what older Windows apps used. One of the limitations of GDI+ is that it only supports
TrueType fonts, which FixedSys is not. I don't think Microsoft has any "official" stance on the font, it's simply a limitation of the underlying rendering system used by
Windows Forms.

Unfortunately, I don't have a good solution for you, other than to switch to a TrueType font, such as Courier New or Lucida Console.

Kevin
Windows Forms Team.

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>From: "Alex Rozentuller" <Alex.Roz...@Misys.com>
>Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:46:36 -0700

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