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From: t-benw@microsoft.UUCP (Benjamin Waldmin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Outline fonts and Font sizes
Summary: How do you build a font size menu if you have outline fonts?
Keywords: System 7.0 fonts
Message-ID: <7994@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 00:56:09 GMT
Reply-To: benw@microsoft.UUCP (Benjamin Waldmin)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Suppose you're building a font menu or a list box with all font sizes that
are currently available in the currently selected font.

Nowadays, one can just iterate from 1 to 127 points
and call RealFont to see if the font of the font of the designated size
really exists (and, of course, there would always be an option to let
the user pick another size).

But what happens when outline fonts come along?  Does RealFont always
return TRUE for any size of an outline font?  If so, then what kind
of menu/list box should one build--how many sizes should it include, and
what point sizes should those be?  Of course, one can always include
9, 10, 12, 18, and 24.  But do we include 14? 36? 27? 48? 

Has anyone thought about this issue?


Thanks,
Ben Waldman
Software Design Engineer,
Microsoft Corp.

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