The Font tab in Display Options property sheet is used
to select a session display font and to configure additional font
options. From the BlueZone menu bar, click or right-click in the
session window and select Display Options.
Click the Font tab.
- Font Selection
- The Font Selection group is used to select a session display font.
Options include:
- Name: Displays the currently selected font
name.
- Style: Shows the currently selected font
style.
- Size: Displays the currently selected font
size or ‘A’ if the font has been auto-sized by BlueZone. See Font
Options below for information on auto-sizing the session display font.
- Change: Click to change any of the features
listed above.
- Options
- The Options group is used to configure additional display font
properties. Configuration options include:
- Auto-Size Font: (relative to size of Session
Window) When checked, BlueZone auto-sizes the font to the largest
font possible while still displaying all the session rows and columns
within the session window. How well the auto-size font feature works
depends largely on the quality of the font selected.
- Auto-Size Session Window: (relative to
the Font Size) If checked, and the OK or Apply button is clicked,
BlueZone auto-sizes the session window to the smallest window possible,
while still displaying all the session rows and columns.
- Dual Case Characters: If enabled then both
upper and lower case characters are displayed in the session window.
If disabled then only upper case characters are displayed in the
session window.
- Blinking Characters: Used to set the blink
speed of blinking characters displayed in the host screen. When the
Blinking Characters slide control has the keyboard input focus then
the Sample group displays a sample of the currently configured blink
rate. To get focus, click on the slide control itself.
- Row Spacing: Used to set the distance in
pixels between lines of text in the session window. If Auto-Size
Font is selected, then this setting can affect the Font Size.
- Column Spacing: Used to set the distance
in pixels between characters in the session window. If Auto-Size
Font is selected, then this setting can affect the Font Size.
- Border Size: Used to set the border width
in pixels. The Border (if set to a number greater than 0) is an equal
space that goes all the way around the BlueZone display window. Left
side, top, right side and bottom. You don't actually see a border,
you see the space created by the border size setting. If the size
is set to zero, screen data starts at the extreme edges of the display
window. Increasing the size of the border places that amount of space
in pixels between the edge of the display window and the screen data,
equally around the entire screen.
- Default: Used to set all of the controls
in Options group to their default values.
- Highlight Zero Character: Used to choose
how BlueZone displays the zero character. In many fonts, its hard
to tell the difference between a capital O and the number zero. This
feature helps distinguish the number zero from the capital O by adding
a dot or a slash to the zero. From the drop-down list box, choices
are:
- No Highlighting: Displays the zero character
exactly as the currently configured font displays it.
- Add Center Dot: Adds a dot to the center
of the zero character.
- Add Slash: Adds a slash to the zero character.
- Fixed-Aspect Ratio (%): When selected along with Auto-Size
Font, BlueZone keeps the font width proportional to the font height. When
Auto-Size Session Window is cleared, BlueZone centers the host
screen.
- Font Smoothing: Controls the rendering and appearance of the font
edges.
- System Default: Uses the font smoothing settings of the
system.
- Off: Disables all smoothing. The font is displayed with sharp
edges.
- Regular: Enables regular anti-aliasing font smoothing. The font
is displayed with smooth edges.
- ClearType: The font is displayed with smooth edges and is
thinner.
- Sample
- The Sample window is used to show how the currently configured
font settings appear in the display session.