Small font

void1984 · #1 September 10th, 2010, 03:58 AM

I can undestand well why it is hardly impossible to change font size in top and bottom text bars and encyclopedia.
For me it is hard to read the text when someone is firing. It requires to read the top bar to see the probabilities (which is important to me to know if repeating the attack makes sense) and the bottom bar to see if it has resulted in any casualties. My idea is an additional box on the screen when someone is firing (a la spwaw)with all the data from top and bottom bar with much larger font.

Wdll · #2 September 14th, 2010, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by void1984

I can undestand well why it is hardly impossible to change font size in top and bottom text bars and encyclopedia.
For me it is hard to read the text when someone is firing. It requires to read the top bar to see the probabilities (which is important to me to know if repeating the attack makes sense) and the bottom bar to see if it has resulted in any casualties. My idea is an additional box on the screen when someone is firing (a la spwaw)with all the data from top and bottom bar with much larger font.

Being able to look at both somewhere else together would be nice.

jeffreywilens · #3 September 19th, 2010, 01:34 PM

Actually it's the font in the Encyclopedia that is the major problem for those with older eyes. I have found changing the resolution of the computer and then matching it to the resolution of the game (such as 800x600) makes it readable but defeats the purpose of the having the CD version which I do and deprives the beauty of the larger resolution map. Any larger resolution and I have great difficulty readng the Encyclopedia numbers and text.

I know there are ways to mess with the dpi size on Windows and wonder if that would make any difference.

Or what about being able to access the Encyclopedia material in some other way. It's just text and pictures so couldn't the data be put into a PDF or ASCII file and then it could even be printed and used as a paper accessory. Is there some technical or legal obstacle to this approach? I certainly would pay a few more bucks to have such a readable playing aid.