Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!ira.uka.de!sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de!hartnegg From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) Subject: Re: emTeX Previewer -- Changing the "zoom" size Message-ID: <1991Apr11.094546.16918@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> Keywords: emTeX screen previewer, page size. Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland References: <1991Mar27.172248.22659@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 09:45:46 GMT Lines: 25 nmouawad@watmath.waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes: >In article tomliew@itsgw.rpi.edu (Thomas Liew) writes: >The problem with gray scaling (that's what the /ox and /oy commands do) >is speed ... even if the scaling is optimized for even values (I suggest >you use 4 for both) it is still slow. EM warns of this in the document. >What happens is that v show the fonts `real size'. Since we are using >300dpi fonts, that explains the huge size on the screen. >The best solution, I think, would be to use smaller fonts. Something >like 90 and 75 dpi which are better suited for the screen. >I haven't installed these yet. If someone out there has a better solution, >I am listening. I have tried. Forget it! Metafont does not work properly with such small resolutions. It is much better to scale down the other fonts. -- ------------------------------------------------------- Klaus Hartnegg, Kleist-Str. 7, D-7835 Teningen, Germany Bitnet : HAKL@DFRRUF1 or HARTNEGG@CERNVM Internet : HAKL@ibm.ruf.uni-freiburg.de