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From: greif@NCIFCRF.GOV (Peter Greif)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Reasonable printing of X window screens
Message-ID: <9012052101.AA10448@nihdna.ncifcrf.gov>
Date: 5 Dec 90 21:01:27 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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Dear expert,

I am a recent convert to the Xprotocol and on ther whole, enjoy it enormously.
Two failings that I and my colleagues find, however, is capturing an image from
the screen for printing, and consistency of the display between X - servers.
Both of these problems appear to be attributable to the bit-mapped fonts that
X uses. On displays of higher density the bit-mapped fonts shrink, sometimes
to nigh illegible sizes.

 Is there any possiblity that stroke fonts will become available under
future releases of X? Is there a current solution to this dilemma?

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