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From: milne@ci4.ics.uci.edu (Alastair Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Text attribute in Graphics mode
Keywords: Text Background color
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Date: 29 Aug 90 06:09:13 GMT
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In <1990Aug25.214403.12139@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes:

>The outtext characters need not be tiny.  You can multiply their size
>both in height, and in width.  It is a case of read the manual.
>(See SetTextStyle in your reference).

   Please verify this.  My understanding is that the scaling of characters
   applies *only* to stroked fonts, read from CHR files.  I don't believe
   that OutText uses these scalings.

   And I'm afraid that, at least to my eye, the visual quality of the
   stroked fonts is quite inferior to that of OutText's.  Enough so that,
   even though I needed to use a character set with some different
   fonts in it, I couldn't afford to use a stroked font.

   Does anybody know where the font comes from that OutText uses?


   Alastair Milne