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From: wbh@druwy.ATT.COM (Bill Hyde)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Maximum size of Font files
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Date: 1 Feb 91 19:37:22 GMT
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In article <2641@trlluna.trl.oz> rick@trlamct.trl.oz.au (Rick Coxhill) writes:
|Can anyone supply information about the maximum sizes of Windows font files?
|The Microsoft support people tell me that for Windows 2 font format the
|maximum size is 64K and for Windows 3 font format the maximum size is
|unlimited.
|The distributors of SoftType tell me that the maximum size of any format is
|32K.

ZenoGraphics SuperPrint 1.1 prints out a warning that says something
like -- the font is over 64k, due to a bug in windows 3.0 it won't run
in enhanced mode, swich to standard mode.  The words aren't correct,
but that's the essence of the thought.  I presume that means the font
limit in "enhanced" mode is 64k and none (or at least larger) in
"standard" mode.


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