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Problems with Propeller font

TimHTimH Posts: 48
edited 2010-11-29 13:35 in Propeller 1
Hello

I seem to be having a problem with the font when using the propeller tool.
Some characters are spaced close together so they are unreadable while others seemed to be widely spaced.
It makes the code very difficult to read. I have the same problem with objects from the obex or code I have written myself.
Changing the text bigger or smaller under preferences does not cure the problem. I have only noticed this problem since performing a restore on my PC.
Is it a font issue or something else ?

Tim

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  • hover1hover1 Posts: 1,929
    edited 2010-02-21 02:02
    Tim,

    Since you just restored your PC, the Parallax fonts may not have transfered correctly. Try to reinstall the Propellor Tool and see what that does.

    Jim
    TimH said...
    Hello

    I seem to be having a problem with the font when using the propeller tool.
    Some characters are spaced close together so they are unreadable while others seemed to be widely spaced.
    It makes the code very difficult to read. I have the same problem with objects from the obex or code I have written myself.
    Changing the text bigger or smaller under preferences does not cure the problem. I have only noticed this problem since performing a restore on my PC.
    Is it a font issue or something else ?

    Tim
  • TimHTimH Posts: 48
    edited 2010-02-21 02:16
    Jim

    Yes I already did a reinstall on the propeller tool (latest version on the parallax site)

    Tim
  • hover1hover1 Posts: 1,929
    edited 2010-02-21 02:46
    Tim,
    XP, Vista, WIndows7?
    Jim
  • hover1hover1 Posts: 1,929
    edited 2010-02-21 02:51
    Not sure if this helps, but you can read through this one:

    ·http://forums.parallax.com/forums/pr.aspx?f=25&m=331877
    Jim

    (Can't wait till we get a better search facilty.)
  • TimHTimH Posts: 48
    edited 2010-02-21 03:02
    Jim

    Thanks for that link - that is exactly the same problem I am having. I am using XP but have a laptop with XP that the propeller tool works fine on. Also all other programs on the desk top work fine as well. Looks like I may have lost the propeller font somewhere along the way.

    Tim
  • TimHTimH Posts: 48
    edited 2010-02-21 03:07
    OK

    I deleted the parallax font from Windows/fonts and all is now OK

    Tim
  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2010-02-21 10:49
    I have had a wierd one one for a while now. The underscore character ( _ ) used for separating number groups doesn't show in Proptool or BST, it just looks like a space. I know it is there or should be there, but one day it will catch me out. If the sections are copied and pasted to notepad etc they are there.

    It could be my monitors, they are identical LGs. Where the underscore is used as a part of a filename they show up OK, just not on the coloured bits

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  • BradCBradC Posts: 2,601
    edited 2010-02-21 10:52
    Toby Seckshund said...
    I have had a wierd one one for a while now. The underscore character ( _ ) used for separating number groups doesn't show in Proptool or BST, it just looks like a space. I know it is there or should be there, but one day it will catch me out. If the sections are copied and pasted to notepad etc they are there.

    It could be my monitors, they are identical LGs. Where the underscore is used as a part of a filename they show up OK, just not on the coloured bits

    Have you tried knocking the font size up or down one point?

    "Have you tried switching it off and back on again?"

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  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2010-02-21 11:01
    Thanks BradC.

    Font up sized, and there they are. The monitors are rebuilt write offs 1440x900. I prefered my old 19" 4x3 1280x1024, but that failed and these were "free"

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  • BradCBradC Posts: 2,601
    edited 2010-02-21 11:36
    Toby Seckshund said...
    Thanks BradC.

    Font up sized, and there they are. The monitors are rebuilt write offs 1440x900. I prefered my old 19" 4x3 1280x1024, but that failed and these were "free"

    The Parallax Font has some broken point sizes. The Propeller tool won't let you select those particular point sizes, so I'm surprised the issue manifested itself with the Prop Tool.

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  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2010-02-21 12:00
    When I did a "font size up" it went strait to 14pt which is a bit big on screen but the elusive ( _ ) was there. It's probably a combination of things. At least it will be good for proof reading and debug head scratching.

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  • tmaynardtmaynard Posts: 27
    edited 2010-03-25 20:04
    TimH said...

    I seem to be having a problem with the font when using the propeller tool.
    Some characters are spaced close together so they are unreadable while others seemed to be widely spaced.
    It makes the code very difficult to read.
    I installed the Propeller Tool for the first time yesterday, took all the default options, and fired it up for the first time today. I had exactly the same font problem. I looked for some way within the program to change the font and found nothing.

    I came here, found this thread, deleted the Parallax font and now all is well. [noparse][[/noparse]Okay, I didn't delete it -- I simply renamed it.]

    Win XP Media Center Edition SP3

    Tom.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2010-11-29 13:35
    TimH wrote: »
    Hello

    I seem to be having a problem with the font when using the propeller tool.
    Some characters are spaced close together so they are unreadable while others seemed to be widely spaced. ....

    I just bought a new HP computer running Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit, installed the latest Prop Tool and I'm encountering this identical problem.

    I see where people perhaps fixed this problem by deleting the Propeller fonts from the Windows fonts. Can somebody give me a clue on how to do that?

    I found the following info on this, which I presume will work with the Propeller font without causing the end of the world...
    http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1076-fonts-delete.html

    Is this the right way to do this particular operation, or will the aforementioned procedure cause a total collapse of time and space creating a hole from which I and all civilization would never escape?


    thanks,
    :)
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