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From: kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires)
Subject: Re: Large font sizes
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taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:


>    Speaking of large font sizes, I've seen 96-point fonts on a Mac
>(apparently comes with the ImageWriter LQ disk), and I would like to convert
>them to the GS.  Is that 32K limit still in effect?  I have some 72-point
>fonts which have the high-ASCII characters deleted so the font strike would
>fit in the 32K space.  Is there any way around this?

>Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be
>U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
>Scarberia, ON       |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         |  is method in 't."

32k limit for a IIgs font? That would be 64 ProDOS blocks and I'm sure I've
got some IIgs fonts larger than that.