Ugly Terminal Font

I have an old application that has a text indicator requiring a non-proportionally spaced font. Years ago, it looked great with 11pt terminal font.
I recently tried to update that application and noticed that the text display has became very ugly, blocky and unreadable. (It seems the some other sizes (9 or 13) look much better, see image. Same in LabVIEW 8.0...8.5)
This is now under Windows XP and curiously enough, the font control panel does not even show a "terminal" font. Where then does LabVIEW get it from?
Anyway, I am trying to figure out if this problem is due to an upgrade of the OS or a change in the newer LabVIEW versions. Could it be that my old computer had a different "terminal" font installed?
Potential workaround: I noticed that "Lucida Console" is an evenly spaced font that look great at all sizes, so maybe I will switch to that one. Is this a stock OS font or did it possibly get installed wth some other program? I want to make sure things work in built applications.
Does anyone have more information on where the terminal font used by LabVIEW is located?
Message Edited by altenbach on 01-09-2008 05:56 PM
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Hi altenbach,
The "Terminal" font is a Windows font; however, it appears to be hidden by default on XP and does not show up in the Windows\Fonts folder. It is also not called terminal.fon. Try searching your computer for 8514oeme.fon or vgaoem.fon and see if you can locate these files. If you open them with the Windows Font Viewer, you will see that the title of the font is "Terminal". If you right-click and go to the file's properties, you can uncheck "Hidden" and then it should show up in your Fonts folder.
I don't know if the font has changed from one OS to another, so I can't say why it looks different in the same application on a Windows XP machine.
Message Edited by Donovan B on 01-10-2008 06:09 PM
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