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- From: jchauvin@netcom.com (John H. Chauvin)
- Subject: IRIS Font Manager: font scaling
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.162528.24924@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:25:28 GMT
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- Can someone tell me if the IRIS font manager is able to scale a font to
- a size which is not available, in the same way that PostScript does?
- For example, the font courier roman is available in the following
- sizes:8,10,12,14,16,18,20,24,32 as defined in the font directory
- /usr/lib/fmfonts. Is it possible to obtain sizes 11,13,15,and 19? The man
- page for fmscalefont says "If you request a size for which there is no
- font, the Font Library routines choose the font that matches closest but
- is not larger than the requested size." This does not sound like font
- scaling to me. This is the exact behavior I am experiencing in a gl
- program I am using. A font size of 15 points using courier looks like 14
- points. But another man page on fmscalefont says "Its functionality
- parallels the scalefont operator of PostScript." A font defined to be 15
- points using PostScript is definitely larger than 14 points.
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- Font Confused
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- jchauvin@netcom.com
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