Change the Letter Size in Skin.?

Posted by: AJP007

Change the Letter Size in Skin.? - 04/01/16 05:23 AM

Hi Guys, I have a really silly problem.
can anyone tell me in simple terms how to change the letter Sizes in a Skin...for exampe this..Pls see photo attached,
As you can see the Bouquets are ALL in Upper Cap but still much smaller than the EPG Description on the Left.
I would like to know the Pfad in DCC and which sizes are avaiable, maybe a simle How to.. if possible.!
Thanks,really apprec
AJP

Posted by: Johnny_B

Re: Change the Letter Size in Skin.? - 04/02/16 06:23 AM

Not really my knowledge, but I give it a try to give you a link to this question.
How to change font size manuel



How to change font size manuel.
It is quit easy to change the font size in a skin.
Open the skin.xml that belong to the skin you want to work with in a editor.
(usr/share/enigma2/SKINNAME/skin.xml)

Find this part at the top in the skin.xml file.

Code:
<!-- Fonts -->
 <fonts>
 <font filename="nmsbd.ttf" name="Regular" scale="100"/>
 <font filename="lcd.ttf" name="LCD" scale="100"/>
 <font filename="ae_AlMateen.ttf" name="Replacement" scale="100" replacement="1"/>
 <font filename="tuxtxt.ttf" name="Console" scale="100"/>
 </fonts>


The main font that's used in skins can be different
the name should all ways the same name="Regular"

Here you can scale the font scale="100"

It can give small bugs where a text uses more than one line
or if the text line is made too tight in the skin.xml
of course these 2 - 3 small bug can be fixed.

Normal font size scale="100"

Scaled font size scale="110"
Posted by: AJP007

Re: Change the Letter Size in Skin.? - 04/03/16 01:20 AM

Johnny_B, you are a Star..!!
Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for.
I will have a read on this Subject, experiment a little and report back with my results.
Thank you again.
AJP
Posted by: AJP007

Re: Change the Letter Size in Skin.? - 04/03/16 02:19 AM

Johnny_B,
well I have scaled the Settings to "Regular 110"..this is NOT perfect but better than it was.
Its NOT really possible to use a Greater/Higher Scaling because this changes the Fonts in the assigned Spaces and they NO longer fit inside.!
Looks a bit silly with the Top and Bottom Font parts missing.!!
Also the information in the "Info Bars" changes and a lot of Info normally shown there is missing.!
So I will leave as it is. Thanks for your Support.!
Best regards.AJP
Posted by: Johnny_B

Re: Change the Letter Size in Skin.? - 04/03/16 04:22 AM

Yes there are some limitations probably because the skin design.
You will need to experiment with the scale settings until it is reasonably usable.
But nice that this information was useful to you. smile
Posted by: leenstri

Re: Change the Letter Size in Skin.? - 04/03/16 05:09 AM

In my sab with openAtv i can make the channel list smaller.
Like to let it show 10 instead of 17 channels in the list. This makes the font automagically bigger.
I think that is what you really want. I think there should be a file where you can change this, but I am not an expert so I don't know where to look for it.

Hope this helps
Posted by: Toysoft

Re: Change the Letter Size in Skin.? - 04/03/16 05:18 AM

Look at the skin.xml in /usr/share/enigma2

Probably,

TS
Posted by: Tararin

Re: Change the Letter Size in Skin.? - 06/27/16 10:53 PM

skin.xml look for line <screen name="ChannelSelection" ,then line <widget name="list" in this line change value serviceNameFont="Regular;24" to higher