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From: mrk@aretha.jax.org (Michael Kosowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: X11/News fonts
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Date: 27 Nov 90 18:02:03 GMT
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As I understand the Sun X11/News version 2 server guide, some
sizes of some of the outline fonts are stored in bitmap format.

When I run xlsfonts, I see

-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-54-iso8859-1
-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-64-iso8859-1

and

-monotype-bembo-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

which tells me that even though both fonts are based
on scalable outline fonts, the font machinery
will comply if I ask for

	Bembo-25
	Times-Roman-25
	-monotype-bembo-medium-i-normal--25-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

but not when I ask for

	-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--25-120-75-75-p-64-iso8859-1


Why isn't there a zero sized version of -adobe-times listed?
Does the server simply not list a zero sized version of anything
it has bitmap instances of, or is something more
interesting going on?


-- Michael