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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
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Subject: Re: TeXtures 1.2 Large Letter Quality
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Date: 29 Mar 91 05:55:32 GMT
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In article <1991Mar28.135326.10622@jyu.fi>, lehtonen@jyu.fi (Ari Lehtonen) writes:
> These latter fonts
> are PostScript outlines for TeX's Computer Modern fonts
> and they can be scaled to any size (well, I think TeX may have
> some restrictions for \magnification). 


TeX's restrictions on what sizes can be loaded are: minimum step
size of 0.01%; minimum magnification factor of 0.01% and maximum
magnification of 327.68% I believe that this somewhat exceeds the
capabilities of PostScript (hmm ptmr scaled 32768 is the
equivalent of saying ptmr at 126 yards!)

-dh