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Article #3449Re: Scaleable fonts
From: Bill "Bill" Tuthill
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 21:57
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 21:57
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In article <203@van-bc.UUCP>, jtc@van-bc.UUCP (J.T. Conklin) writes: > I am writing an application in which I need to generate high-quality > font glyphs at arbitrary sizes and raster resolutions. Since this is > an interactive application, Cons'ing up a mode_def and spawning METAFONT > to generate the font is not an option. Why don't you write the application under NeWS, Display PostScript, or X11/NeWS? I wouldn't exactly say all three are readily available, but one of three *IS* available on hardware from (in alphabetic order) DEC, NeXT, SGI, and Sun. This "cons'ing up a mode_def" bit wouldn't indicate you have a Symbolics workstation, would it? Bill
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