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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WinWrite fonts when running 1028x768
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Date: 21 Mar 90 14:29:56 GMT
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Dale Rogerson <rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> writes:
>	My first reactions is has anyone made fonts for
>	the 800x600 or the 1028x768 mode.  According to the Windows 
>	documentation set 6 was designed for 640x480. 

Note that this won't make the font look bad; only smaller.  All the display
modes above have the "correct" 4:3 aspect ratio.

>	Are there
>	any other font design tools availiable other than the one included
>	in the SDK?  We need a public domain tool so all those non-developers
>	can spend their free time designing fonts while us developers can
>	get to work writing those killer apps.  Would anyone spend the time
>	making fonts and distributing them for free if someone wrote a free
>	font generation tool?  If so I might be inspired to do it.  Of course
>	the source will probably be in Modula-2!

Well, there are some utilities that will do it.  FontGen from VS Software
($395) will do it, but you're paying for a full-blown font editor.  Also,
if you register your QFont ($80), you'll get a tool to generate Windows
fonts.  Both of these take a LaserJet .sfp font file and create a Windows
screen font from it.

I'd love to have such a tool in PD, but I Just haven't got the time to do
it right now.  The .sfp source is no problem; the Windows font specs I'm
not very familiar with.

And still, nobody has been able to tell me what algorithm Windows uses to
determine what screen font to use for each printer font...

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