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Quattro Pro WYSIWYG issues

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by dvb1

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Does anyone know what causes Quattro Pro 5.0 for DOS to display weird characters in the WYSIWYG mode? The WYSIWYG mode displays actual fonts and font sizes. Is there such a thing as a font incompatability?
Please help!!!

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by thechas

Back in the past days of DOS, you had to setup every program that used a GUI to use the correct display adapter and monitor.

Errors in WYSIWYG mode were almost always the result of the graphics configuration of the program not matching the system hardware.

Even when using a DOS Window under XP, the graphics driver is still handled by the application.

I cannot just hook up my DOS machine at this moment. So, I cannot give you detailed step by step instructions. Under settings or configuration in QPRO, there is an option to select your graphics adapter.

Or, you may just need to resurrect on old system with a 2M PCI graphics card.

Chas

by dvb1

Thanks for your response. As you stated, in QPro you can select your graphics adapter under /Options/Display Mode. Of all of the adapter options you can choose from, only the WYSIWYG option actually puts the program into a "graphics" mode. With any of the other adapter choices, QPro stays in "text" mode. It ignores any font changes, etc. It is the WYSIWYG mode that I need to be in. Please advise. Thanks.

by thechas

What display adapter do you have?

Are the DOS mode drivers installed?

Are you running an actual DOS boot? Or, a DOS window?

You may need to drop back to a full DOS system with an older video card that has real DOS mode drivers.

Chas

by info

This is a graphics adapter problem. I have experienced it over many years. For a long time NVIDIA was the only manufacturer which continued to support this 'unusual' video mode but now it seems that even they have dropped it!

Only workarounds I have found are:

Find an older NVIDIA graphics card which fits your system

Use an old PC with a graphics card which still works

Use DOSBOX which emulates the mode properly, but is grindingly slow ...

The latter is the only working option I have found with VISTA.

Hope this helps!

Steve.

www.skituscany.com

:) I'd rather be skiing in Tuscany! :)

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