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- From: peh@ffi.no (Per Espen Hagen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: PageStream and Bitmap fonts
- Date: 13 Jan 1994 08:51:50 GMT
- Organization: Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt, Kjeller, Norge
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- References: <99797@cup.portal.com> <stephenk.01sl@mkiisys3.adsp.sub.org>
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- In article <stephenk.01sl@mkiisys3.adsp.sub.org>, stephenk@mkiisys3.adsp.sub.org (Stephen Kurlow) writes:
- >
- > One thing I wondered with font sizes is:
- >
- > Doesn't the font system on Amiga only allow you to specify a font
- > height? So how do you handle when printing to say an Epson LQ1050
- > in 180x180 and 360x180? Because for the latter case you want the
- > font same height but twice the width because of increased
- > resolution right? You do not use some routine to scale the 180x180
- > used font upto 360x180 or something do you? I'd hope somehow
- > could use Intellifont thing to render a font for twice width. I'd
- > really appreciate info on how this all works!!! :-)
-
- RTFM... it's all in the "Workbench 3.0" manual...
-
- Intellifont supports an environment variable specifying the aspect ratio
- of the font. This is also useful if you use something as weird as a
- Euro36:SuperHiRes Workbench (1448x200, almost 6:1 pixel aspect ratio!)
-
- Can't remember the name of the variable off-hand, but I *know* it's in
- the manual, under the "Intellifont" entry.
-
- Environment variables can of course be changed (and are evaluated) on-the-fly,
- so there should be no problems if you need more than one aspect ratio during
- the same session.
-
-
- --
- Per Espen Hagen per.e.hagen@ffi.no Tel: +47 63807653 //
- Senior Scientist Image Processing Group NDRE, Norway \X/
-
- This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't (Hofstadter)
-