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- From: choi@wk59.nas.nasa.gov (Diana Choi)
- Subject: Re: Font Manager
- In-Reply-To: <1992Sep3.184249.2962@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 23:57:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.235726.14772@nas.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Sep3.184249.2962@odin.corp.sgi.com> you write:
- (Diana Choi) >writes:
- >> Is there a way to find out which pointsizes of a specific font are on hand?
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- >The IRIS Font Manager in IRIX 4.0.5 and higher can use outline fonts. An
- >outline font can be scaled to any desired point size, so there is really no
- >list of available point sizes. The X11R5 version of the X Window System can
- >also use outline fonts. It lists an outline font with the point size set to 0.
- >
- >Ivan Bach, ib@sgi.com
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- Thank you for your thoughtful and thorough information. I suppose I should
- have been more specific. Running 4.0.1 and NOT using X, is there a way to
- find out what point sizes are available?
-
- diana
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