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From: naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A fix for Openwin font compatability problems
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.164651@wind.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 90 23:46:51 GMT
References: <894@sbi.com>
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In article <894@sbi.com>, victoria@sbi.com (Victoria Drozdov) writes:
|> I have seen a lot of postings lately on font problems
|> under Sun's Openwin 2.0. We have run into similar problems,
|> and a solution.
|> 
|> The font schema under Openwin is very different. Openwin
|> uses scalable fonts. This means that for any of the available
|> font families, you can access fonts sizes 1-255.
|> 

Just a nit, but there is no upper bound (memory/swap notwithstanding)
on the size of a font.  Under OpenWindows "xfd Courier-300" will show
you the full character set of Courier at 300 points.  Also not all fonts
are scalable... "xdf fixed" and "xfd fixed-300" will produce the same
results.

-Patrick

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