Is there a way to make the font in the TV guide bigger?

[junks2010]

Hi All,

Is there a way to make the font in WMC TV guide bigger? The text look OK on a computer monitor but are tiny and very hard to read on a big screen TV.
I searched the web but could not find a solution. I see that people are changing color, # of lines, etc. but not the font.
If possible, can someone please point me to an app or a how-to to accomplish this?

Thanks.
jk.

[Crash2009]

This might be close to what you are looking for...
http://www.mychannellogos.com/predownload

[mdavej]

If you have a lot of blue space around your guide, this will make it fill the screen, making everything bigger. Plus if you drop down to 720p, that will make the fonts a bit bigger.
http://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/vie ... 000#p23000

If things are hard to read on a big screen, sounds like you may have some other issue. Text should be crystal clear if your resolution and pixel format are correct. What model TV and what model video card do you have?

[dmagerl]

This doesnt exactly pertain to the question but it might point you in the general direction of how to do it.

http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/12/increasi ... e-epg.html

[Ed]

I changed the fonts, but I edited the character map in the existing WMC fonts to match the font I wanted; probably not the easiest way to do it.

[STC]

^ Ooo that looks nice and tight.

Care to document what you did?

[Ed]

I can't remember the program I used, but it was basically one like this, I just cut and pasted characters from the font I wanted, into the existing WMC fonts, then saved it.

http://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator.html

[holidayboy]

I remember using resedit to play around with .DLL files and change all sorts of things in MC - I broke stuff way to often though so I went back to using the defaults in the end!

Use with caution!

http://www.resedit.net

[junks2010]

This might be close to what you are looking for...
http://www.mychannellogos.com/predownload

I have that software. But it is not what I am looking for. It does not change the font. Thanks.

[junks2010]

I changed the fonts, but I edited the character map in the existing WMC fonts to match the font I wanted; probably not the easiest way to do it.

This is exactly what I am looking for. Can you please explain it with a little more details? Thanks.

[Ed]

http://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator.html

You take a program like that, and you replace the characters from a font(s) you have into these 3 fonts found in 'C:\Windows\ehome' and then save the font(s). It's tedious. Lots of copy/pasting.

These are my 3 edited fonts you can just override the existing ones in the ehome directory to see what it looks like:

[Ed]

http://www.mediafire.com/download/t3tbn ... goemcl.ttf

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ikpmd ... egmcsb.ttf

http://www.mediafire.com/download/n7z5v ... segmcr.ttf

[junks2010]

http://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator.html

You take a program like that, and you replace the characters from a font(s) you have into these 3 fonts found in 'C:\Windows\ehome' and then save the font(s). It's tedious. Lots of copy/pasting.

These are my 3 edited fonts you can just override the existing ones in the ehome directory to see what it looks like:

Thank you sooooooo much, Ed. It works great.
By any chance do you know which font file where WMC used to display the info below the guide? Thanks.

[junks2010]

http://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator.html

You take a program like that, and you replace the characters from a font(s) you have into these 3 fonts found in 'C:\Windows\ehome' and then save the font(s). It's tedious. Lots of copy/pasting.

These are my 3 edited fonts you can just override the existing ones in the ehome directory to see what it looks like:

Thank you sooooooo much, Ed. It works great.
By any chance do you know which font file where WMC used to display the info below the guide? Thanks.