To change the font TinyTERM uses, go to the Edit menu and select Session Properties. From there, click on the Fonts tab. The Add Font button will allow you to add a new font.

For terminal emulators, a monospaced font is the best choice. Courier New and Lucida Console are both good choices and available on most Windows systems.

Once you’ve chosen a font and added it to the TinyTERM font list, click on the name to highlight it, then click the Up button on the Fonts tab until it’s at the top of the list. TinyTERM uses a font cascade, which means it checks the fonts in the order listed when drawing the screen.

You may find that lines and boxes draw with unusual characters after this. The default Term font used by TinyTERM has line draw characters in specific reference locations. Other fonts don’t always share these.

You can change the display by going to the Attributes tab of Session Properties and checking the Use Non-Font Based line draw characters box. That will use graphics to draw lines instead of characters.

The TN3270 and TN5250 emulations only use one font. To change that font, open the Session Properties and go to the Fonts tab. Click the Edit font button to select a new font. A monospaced font is still the best choice.

Using TinyTERM 3.3 on Windows 95, you may see fuzzy, unreadable fonts which also affects other applications, such as Microsoft Word. There are several possible fixes for this problem:

1. TinyTERM Graphics Settings
   1. In TinyTERM, go to the Configure menu and select Emulation.
   2. Click the Advanced button.
   3. Check the Ignore graphics/parity bit option.
   4. OK and save the changes.
2. Duplicate Term Fonts
   This is generally caused by having several installs on one PC. To get rid of the duplicates:
   1. Open the Windows Control Panel.
   2. Double-click Fonts.
   3. Scroll down to the fonts named Term*.
   4. Delete any with duplicate names
3. Video Driver
   1. Open the Windows Control Panel.
   2. Double-click Display
   3. Change the display resolution.

In extreme cases, you may need to change the video driver to generic VGA or super VGA.

Using TinyTERM on Windows 95, it may give an error that it cannot find the Term font. When this happens, turn off the Windows 95 “TrueType only” setting.

If fonts aren’t scaling properly in TinyTERM version 3.x, first verify you have the “Scale to window” option checked. If that’s set, but the font is still too small, duplicate TERM fonts are causing the problem.

To fix that, go the Windows fonts folder. Look for the fonts named term*.fon; i.e., term480.fon, term600.fon, etc. Delete all but the highest-numbered one. The next time you start TinyTERM, the fonts should scale properly.

When you copy text in the TinyTERM screen that includes line draw characters, they will paste into other applications as text instead. The underlying cause is the way line draw characters are displayed.

Virtually all terminal emulations use a separate display font for line draw characters. The host sends a signal, usually an escape sequence, that tells the terminal to switch to the alternate font. The host then sends the letters you see when you copy and paste, and the emulation does the display substitution.

TinyTERM version 4 uses an ActiveX control for display. When you copy out of that ActiveX control, you get the underlying data, which is not what’s displayed in the emulator window. But it is what gets pasted.

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TinyTERM for Windows versions prior to 4.00 have an option to scale the font to the screen. This causes the font to resize automatically for a best fit in the current emulator window.

If this is turned off, the user can select the font size instead. This allows viewing only a portion of the screen at a time, but at a much larger size. Scrollbars allow the user to move left or right, up or down at will through the current screen.

This feature was removed in TinyTERM version 4.00. The customer-requested addition of the ability to add a background image to the emulator window required it. With a background image in place, using the horizontal scrollbar caused font display problems. So in TinyTERM version 4.x, the font automatically scales to the screen. There is no workaround.

TinyTERM and TERM on other operating systems rely on the OS to handle font sizing. There are no font size settings for DOS, UNIX, Linux, etc.

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TinyTERM 4.40 added support for the UTF-8 character set. TinyTERM 4.42 added Unicode support for Big5, GB2312, Shift-JIS, and KOI-8. This expanded the languages that could be displayed to include Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

To use the available double-byte characters, you need an appropriate font installed in Windows. For example, you might use PMingLiU.ttf or simsun.ttc for Chinese support.

Once you have installed the right font for the language you want to display, open the TinyTERM Session Properties and go to the Fonts tab. Add the font to the list in TinyTERM, and change its matching code page to Unicode Font. Apply the change, but don’t click OK yet.

Go to the Code Page tab next. In the lower left, there’s a drop-down box. Select the appropriate Unicode option there, then click OK and save the settings. Double-byte characters should display correctly after that.

TERM for UNIX/Linux has no font settings. It relies on the operating system for all character display.

For more information about Unicode, see the official Unicode web site.

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TinyTERM 4 automatically adjusts its font size for the number of lines and columns required in the available space. The default TERM font is a bitmapped font, though, which means sometimes the letters don’t fit smoothly into their spaces. They appear to overlap or just display too close to each other. There are a few ways to improve this:

1. Change the size of the available window space. The easiest way to do this is to resize the TinyTERM window. But if the window is already maximized, there are still things you can do.
2. Turn the tool bars on or off. From TinyTERM’s View menu, you can turn on or off several items:
   • Ribbon Bar, the buttons across the top of the window
   • Status Bar, the line of indicators at the bottom of the window
   • Menu Bar, the standard Windows menu items at the top
   • Session Bar, the session buttons just above the Status Bar
   • Address Bar, which shows the connection address (this is automatically turned off when you turn off the Ribbon Bar)
   • Vertical Scrollbar, which is available on the right side in some versions of TinyTERM
3. Change the display font. To do this, open the Session Properties and go to the Fonts tab. Click on the Term font to highlight it, then click the Down button once to make it second in the list. TermCS1 will move to the top. It’s a TrueType font, so it scales much better to different window sizes.

TinyTERM 4.31 and higher also have improved font scaling, particularly in 132-column mode.

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The euro symbol € was added to the TERM font in TinyTERM 4.20. In earlier versions, you will need to use a different font to display that symbol.

To add a font to TinyTERM, open the Session Properties and go to the Fonts tab. Click the Add font button. Select the font you want to use, then click OK to add the font to TinyTERM’s list.

To make the font primary, click on it in the font list to highlight it. Then click the Up button repeatedly to move it to the top of the list. TinyTERM will then display text using that font first.

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When you start TinyTERM right after install, the screen can be completely blank. This most often happens when an earlier version of TinyTERM was installed on the PC, but not completely uninstalled. The existing fonts interfere with the install of the new fonts, causing the display problem. Restarting the PC will fix it.

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