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From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager - Winword and Designer
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.220146.5086@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 90 22:01:46 GMT
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Sender: Aaron Wallace
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In article <JMERRILL.90Nov16020751@fenris.claremont.edu> jmerrill@fenris.claremont.edu (Confusion Reigns) writes:
>In article <18669@rouge.usl.edu> pcb@cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
>
>   WINWORD:  The biggest point size I can enter is 127.  I thought that
>     I should be able to have characters the size of the page???
>     For 127, I have to enter it manually, the scroll box stops at 48.
>
>127-point is the largest WFW can handle.  It's also the largest Write
>can handle...I think it's the largest Windows can handle.  If you want
>larger type, use a DOS word processor.  :)

Legacy, for one, allows fonts up to 720 (or thereabouts) points.  So it
doesn't seem to be a Windows-ism.  Winword, though, is stuck at 127 point.

Aaron Wallace