3.1 font scaling

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From: Brian Holt Hawthorne - SunSelect...
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:13

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I just noticed how nicely 3.1 scales truetype fonts to small sizes. The glyphs
seem much smoother than the scaling I see on ATM on my Mac at home. Does anyone
have any info on how this is being done? I'd love to see the algorithm!

Thanks for any info you guys can come up with.

		Rowan

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Subject: 3.1 font scaling
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