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- From: 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Using fonts > 255 points
- Message-ID: <9212180606.AA24880@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 06:06:30 GMT
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- Organization: MuGS Research and Development Facility
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- The following revelation escaped Matt Deatherage's lips...
- >
- > In yet another piece of trivia encountered over the years, on a standard
- > IIgs RGB monitor with factory adjustments the 640-mode pixel dimensions are
- > roughly 80 DPI horizontally by 36 DPI vertically.
- >
- > (80 * 4.5 = 360, and the StyleWriter has 360 DPI resolution)
-
- So this means the StyleWriter driver assumes a resolution of 80 dpi
- when rendering images? Wouldn't this make a 72-point font only 0.9 inches
- tall on paper? 72 * 4.5 = 324; 324/360 = 0.9"... Not terribly accurate...
-
- Having gone through the previous posts in this thread, it seems (to me
- anyway) that surpassing the 255-point limit without breaking the system
- software is feasible if you have something like Pointless which will
- generate such fonts. I've had trouble making really big fonts in Pointless
- 2.0, but the system software doesn't seem to mind > 255-pixel fonts. I'd
- like to know what Alan Bird thinks of all this...
-
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