topic Re: How to increase fonts in coordinate box? in Modeling

How to increase fonts in coordinate box?

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:04:12 GMT

I use a 19'" monitor with 1600/1200 pixels display area.
The digits in the Coordinate Box are very small and can't be seen well.
Can somebody tell me how to increase the font size? It can't be done in Display Properties/Appearance i Windows and I can't fint a way to do it in Archicad either.

Re: How to increase fonts in coordinate box?

David Larrew — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:01:43 GMT

In AC7.0 you used to be able to set Palette Shapes to "Magnified". It appears that they took that away in AC8.*.

This concerns me since my office is about to finally upgrade from AC7.0 to AC8.1.2 and I have a user that NEEDS the magnified Palettes!

What's up GS!

Re: How to increase fonts in coordinate box?

Dwight — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:45:41 GMT

In missing the lack of palette enlargement, I bought an inexpensive fresnel lens to suspend over that corner of the monitor where the palettes live. It seems kind-of "Brazil-like" [Gilliam movie] but helps my tired eyes at high resolutions. Now where did I put Kim Greist?

Re: How to increase fonts in coordinate box?

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:04:11 GMT

On Windows it is possible to enlarge it:
In the Registry Editor (regedit.exe), go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Graphisoft\ArchiCAD\ArchiCAD 8.1.0 INT R2\Font Description
Here double-click the 'Extra Small Dialog Font Size' value and change it to e.g. 14 or 15 from 12. It will do the trick.
Other fonts control various other font sizes of Dialogs and palettes of ArchiCAD.
Laszlo

Re: How to increase fonts in coordinate box?

Chazz — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:10:17 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Now where did I put Kim Greist?

Way off topic....Liked her in "Manhunter" as well. Overall, way too short of a career. What happened to her?

Re: How to increase fonts in coordinate box?

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:43:16 GMT

Thanks a lot, Laslo!
It worked!.
It could have been made easier though - ArchiCAd Design Team, how about a tab in Preferences???

Re: How to increase fonts in coordinate box?

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:12:58 GMT

kliment wrote:
Thanks a lot, Laslo!
It worked!.
It could have been made easier though - ArchiCAd Design Team, how about a tab in Preferences???

Unfortunately, this tweak is available only on Windows. I think they put in the program things that apply to both platforms. Other things they put in places like this.
Just my idea of the thing.
Laszlo

Re: How to increase fonts in coordinate box?

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:21:54 GMT

I understand this discussion took place years ago but it still seems to be a problem. I would like to change the text size in the coordinates palette on a Mac and I am currently running ArchiCad 15. Can anybody tell me how this can be done.