Re: Doubling Font sizes and Shrinking Photographically

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From: Peter Korp
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 1990 05:48

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In article <1990Nov13.220222.14142@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:

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>Incidentally, one of the reasons for not doing this in PostScript fonts
>(aside from the obvious big one of cost!) is that there's a sort of
>nebulous relationship between the point size used to scale the font and
>what it means in final output...consider
>	0.5 dup scale
>	/Times-Roman findfont 16 scalefont setfont
>If there were multiple designs depending on size, should this use the 16-pt
>artwork (the requested size for scalefont) or the 8-pt artwork (the actual
>output size)?

Pardon my stupidity, but now that you bring that point up which artwork does
PostScript really use? I've used this stuff for years and never thought about
this.

>-- 
>Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
>   Cellular phones: more deadly than marijuana.

Peter

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