I'm finding that ConEmu, for some reason, will not use most of my Monospace fonts; when I try to select them, it says "Failed to create Main font!", and switches to Courier. I am having no problems with these fonts in any of my editors, nor in ConsoleZ.
I'm using Win7 64bit, tccle x64 consoles. Is there any way to resolve this issue??
DerellLicht
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Don't you really think I must guess what font you are trying, what build, what OS, etc.?
https://conemu.github.io/en/BadIssue.html
Maximus5
on 12 Jan 2016
Oops, sorry...
OS: Win7 64bit
ConEmu build: 160111
fonts options:
- Monospace selected
- width, cell set to 0
- Anti-aliasing: tried both ClearType and Standard
Monospaced fonts which show this problem:
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (this is actually my normal console font)
Crisp
DFKai-SB
Dina
FixedSys
HyperFont
Medievia Sans Mono
OCR A Extended
Raize
and some others
Monospaced fonts which work properly:
[Raster Fonts XxY]
Andale Mono
BSU Kermit
Consolas
Console 437
DejaVu Sans Mono
Liberation Mono
and a few others
DerellLicht
on 12 Jan 2016
What I'm doing wrong?
Maximus5
on 12 Jan 2016
Aha!! got it... I was selecting Font charset: OEM... once I switch to
ANSI, then the situation swaps; the fonts that failed now work
(including my BVSM), the ones that worked now fail... interesting...
It would be nice if the selector didn't differentiate between ANSI and
OEM, since the list doesn't, but I can live with that!!
DanM
On 01/12/16 13:49, Maximus5 wrote:
What I'm doing wrong?
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DerellLicht
on 13 Jan 2016
You ask Windows for special Font (Family, Size, Charset). Of course, if the font does not exist, Windows (not ConEmu) creates most alike font from available list.
Maximus5
on 13 Jan 2016
hmmm... could possibly update the list when ANSI/OEM are selected, to only show those fonts??
It was not intuitive to me that a list of fonts would be shown, some of them even highlighted in bold (all the Monospace fonts), but that I couldn't select some of them.
DerellLicht
on 13 Jan 2016
When you get the "Failed to create Main font!" error message, you can select the _Default_ font charset to alleviate the problem.
I think, limiting the list of available fonts would be less user friendly.
xylographe
on 13 Jan 2016
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When you get the "Failed to create Main font!" error message, you can select the _Default_ font charset to alleviate the problem.
I think, limiting the list of available fonts would be less user friendly.