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From: CDCKAB%EMUVM1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu ( Karl Brendel)
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Subject: Re: Text attribute in Graphics mode
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Date: 29 Aug 90 13:15:23 GMT
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In article <26DB5C09.19687@ics.uci.edu>
  Alastair Milne <milne@ci4.ics.uci.edu> writes:

>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.

You are probably confusing SetUserCharSize with SetTextStyle.

Please refer to the procedure SetTextStyle documentation in the 5.X Ref
Guide. Note particularly 'Affects all text output by OutText and
OutTextXY. One 8x8 bit-mapped font and several "stroked" fonts are
available.' Note also the example program which uses the default font.
(I don't think you're going to be crazy about the default font when you
get it scaled up.)

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