Re: [foxboro] Exceed fonts problem on Windows XP
- From: Ron Deen <r.deen@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:20:49 +0100
Hi Duc,
Did you try to:
1 disable automatic font substutution?
2 disable any "latin" fonts on the PC?
Hope this helps
Ron Deen
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:17 pm, duc.do@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> We are using Hummingbird Exceed 7.0 and 8.0 on our Windows 2000 desktop to
> view Display Manager graphics, and have been doing that for years, so we've
> worked out most of the kinks. So far.
>
> However, we are getting new desktop PCs and are migrating to Windows XP
> Pro. In the process, it was discovered that Exceed on WinXP Pro mangles
> some of the markers. Specifically, the first marker in all marker sets is
> not displayable, which can be a problem since, for example, the first
> marker in plc_mkr is the open contact in a PLB ladder. When viewed with the
> Font Viewer in Xconfig, the first marker is additionally marked with a
> little tic mark. This happens in both Exceed 7.0 and 8.0.
>
> A screen print of plc_mkr can be seen at
> http://www.thecassandraproject.org/temp/plc_mkr.jpg, with the fonts as seen
> in Windows 2000 on the left, and Win XP Pro on the right. Note the little
> extra mark on the first marker.
>
> Has anybody encountered this marker problem? Is there a workaround? (I
> know, I know... use VNC! But we are not ready to make that leap just yet.)
>
> We tried Hummingbird's technical help, but they wouldn't look at it as even
> our 8.0 software is "out-of-date" since the current version is now 10.0.
>
> Regards,
>
> Duc
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