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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: TrueType on GS and PostScript problem on AWGS
Message-ID: <53915@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Jun 91 19:43:30 GMT
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In article <53863@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons) writes:
>In article <53809@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:
>>[...]  Starting with 5.0, the Font Manager can deal with any font
>>size (up to, theoretically, 16 MB).  The limitation now is that font sizes
>>are bytes, so you can't go bigger than 255 "points."
>
>You may hit the limit on the width of the font strike first...I believe it
>is 32K, but I don't remember if that's bytes or pixels.
>
As long as Dave and I are clarifying each other, I'll take another stab at
this.

When he says the limit on the width of the font strike is 32K, he's right...
but that's the _width_ of the font strike, not the total size.  The font
strike is the 1 bit per pixel image of all the font's characters drawn in a
row with no pixels between them.  Kind of like the font laid end to end as a
banner, so to speak.  _That_ can't be wider than 32K, giving an effective
maximum size of 32K * however many scan lines are in the font's height.
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