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Hi, I run a pretty hi-res workbench desktop (something like 1920x1080), but when I open documents in AmigaGuide format with Multiview, the text is too small to read comfortably.
I would like MultiView to open AmigaGuide documents on a lower resolution screen (i.e. interlace 640x480) so the text appears bigger.
Does anyone know how I can make it do that?  I checked the setting "open on separate screen" but that just creates a screen that is the same resolution as my Workbench.

Also, there are icon tooltypes (Icon/info) in the Multiview icon for FONTNAME, FONTSIZE, and SCREEN, but I don't know what to enter there. I tried adding various parameters like:

FONTNAME=topaz
FONTSIZE=14
SCREEN=Hi Res Laced

..but none of them made a difference.

Can anyone help with this?  Thanks.
« Last Edit: April 25, 2020, 05:26:22 PM by Ral-Clan »
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So have you had a look to see what these settings are as standard?

You could perhaps just adjust the fontsize up from what you see there. SCREEN should presumably say WORKBENCH

They don't say anything by default. They are just bracketed out exactly like this in the icon tooltypes:

(SCREEN=)
(FONTNAME=)
(FONTSIZE=)

I unbracketed them and put a known font (that I had in my directory) and known font size after the equal signs, save and restarted a document in Multiview. There was no change.
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Unfortunately this had no effect:

FONTNAME=courier.font
FONTSIZE=24

This also doesn't work:

FONTNAME=courier

I'm using the instructions listed here:
http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/multiview.html

I would like to try to get Multiview to open on it's own lower resolution screen, but do not know how to find out the screen ID for a generic 640x480 or 640x240 native resolution screen.

« Last Edit: April 26, 2020, 03:13:12 PM by Ral-Clan »
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