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- From: benoist@netcom.com (Tom Benoist)
- Subject: Re: IRIS Font Manager: font scaling
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.232504.28993@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Dec12.162528.24924@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:25:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.162528.24924@netcom.com> jchauvin@netcom.com (John H. Chauvin) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >Font Confused
- >
- >
- >jchauvin@netcom.com
- >
- If you are running 4.05 or later, fonts which have poscript outline files in
- /usr/lib/DPS/outline/base will be scaled correctly with fmscalefont.
-
-
- From 4.05 Release Notes (EOE #12 Fonts)
-
- o In previous releases, the IRIS FM used only bitmap font
- files. The IRIS FM now uses bitmap font files, outline
- font files in the Adobe Type 1 format, or both for a
- given typeface. The IRIS FM scales a bitmap font when
- it cannot use an outline font and it cannot find a
- bitmap font of the right size. The IRIS FM looks for
- Type 1 outline fonts in the directory
- /usr/lib/DPS/outline/base.
-
-
- -Tom Benoist
- benoist@netcom.com
-
-