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In article <1992Dec12.162528.24924@netcom.com> jchauvin@netcom.com (John H. Chauvin) writes:
>Can someone tell me if the IRIS font manager is able to scale a font to 
>a size which is not available, in the same way that PostScript does? 
>For example, the font courier roman is available in the following 
>sizes:8,10,12,14,16,18,20,24,32 as defined in the font directory 
>/usr/lib/fmfonts. Is it possible to obtain sizes 11,13,15,and 19? The man 
>page for fmscalefont says "If you request a size for which there is no 
>font, the Font Library routines choose the font that matches closest but 
>is not larger than the requested size." This does not sound like font 
>scaling to me. This is the exact behavior I am experiencing in a gl 
>program I am using. A font size of 15 points using courier looks like 14 
>points. But another man page on fmscalefont says "Its functionality 
>parallels the scalefont operator of PostScript." A font defined to be 15 
>points using PostScript is definitely larger than 14 points. 
>
>Font Confused
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>
>jchauvin@netcom.com
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If you are running 4.05 or later, fonts which have poscript outline files in
/usr/lib/DPS/outline/base will be scaled correctly with fmscalefont.


From 4.05 Release Notes (EOE #12 Fonts)

          o In previous releases, the IRIS FM used only bitmap font
            files.  The IRIS FM now uses bitmap font files, outline
            font files in the Adobe Type 1 format, or both for a
            given typeface.  The IRIS FM scales a bitmap font when
            it cannot use an outline font and it cannot find a
            bitmap font of the right size.  The IRIS FM looks for
            Type 1 outline fonts in the directory
            /usr/lib/DPS/outline/base.


-Tom Benoist
 benoist@netcom.com