If you are using the DEC or SGI versions of UltraScan and experience strange font problems (the fonts appear too large), you are using 100 DPI fonts, instead of the standard 75 DPI fonts, for which UltraScan was compiled.
The problem is easily soved by re-arranging the order of font loading in the font search path on your X-display. Follow this procedure to load the 75 dpi fonts first:
First obtain the default font path:
$: xset -q
For example, you might see:
Font Path:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
In this case the 75dpi fonts come after the 100 dpi fonts.
In order to fix this, enter:
xset +fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
to obtain:
Font Path:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
Then start UltraScan.
To reset to your 100 dpi default, enter:
xset +fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
(make sure you enter your real font path values, they may be different on your Unix system!)
If you compile from source, you can compile for 100 dpi fonts using the 100dpi switch to the "Setup" script. However, this procedure will not change the fixed fonts in some library widgets!
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Last modified on January 12, 2003.