It is possible to choose which text font style you wish to use on chart captions displayed on the screen, as well as another text font style for any charts and reports which are printed on your printer. You can also select a base font size for printed reports and tabulations.

When the Solar Fire program is first installed orn you computer, it sets your screen font as "ET Sans Serif 3" and your printer font as "ET Symbol 3". However, you are free to select alternative fonts if you so wish. If you select any other fonts, then Solar Fire will use your selected font for displaying any normal text, but will continue to use the astrological fonts when displaying any astrological symbols.

These two fonts contain all the astrological symbols that are needed by the program, without which you will not be able to display charts and reports with astrological symbols. Therefore you must not delete them from your computer. If, for any reason, these fonts are removed, then Solar Fire will display spurious symbols instead of the correct astrological symbols.

One reason you may wish to change the fonts Solar Fire uses would be to access alternative characters specific to a certain language. These characters are saved with the charts they are used with, and reappear whenever the chart is opened again

TIP: to access characters like "ä" used in European languages change the screen font to MS Sans Serif and the printer font to Arial.

 

>> To examine or alter the existing font selections

•Choose the Fonts option from the Chart Options menu.

This will display the "Font Selection" screen, which allows the selection of any available font for your printer or screen.

When this screen is first displayed, the current font selections will be highlighted in each of the list boxes.

 

>> To change a font selection

•Select a font name from either list box.

An example of text in the selected font is shown in the display boxes below each list. Some printer fonts cannot be displayed on the screen, in which case the display box will contain a message to this effect.

 

>> To alter the base font size used for printing reports, time maps and graphic ephemerides

•Select a font size from the drop-down list.

Note: This base font size does not affect printed charts or user defined pages, as these use font sizes which vary according to user-defined font size selections in the wheel and page designs, and also on the size of the displayed page.

 

>> To activate the new font selections

•Click on the Select button.

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