Many colleagues, on seeing my screen for the first time, have been horrified at how small the text on my screen is. I tend to use 1600x1200 monitors, and a 6x8 pixel font for coding purposes. I have good vision at normal head\/screen distances and I like to be able to see a lot of text at once (I can see the \"big picture\" and also the details without having to explicitly zoom).<\/p>\n
My preferred font is the 6 point Terminal font that comes with Windows. When I started my new job, I switched to a Linux machine for most of my day-to-day work and one thing that took me a long time to figure out was how to get my terminal windows to display this font. I got it working in XTerm but copy and paste works better in Gnome terminal, which refused to acknowledge any non-TrueType fonts or even bitmap fonts in a TrueType package.<\/p>\n
I eventually went through the same route that this guy<\/a> went through to create his fonts - I extracted the bitmaps from the .fon file and turned them into outlines by creating a square for each dark pixel. The resulting .ttf file is 30 times as big as the original bitmap but it seems to work fine with everything I've thrown at it.<\/p>\n
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