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From: msiskin@css.itd.umich.edu (Marc Siskin)
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Subject: Re: Bitmapped font scaling?  AmigaMail!
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Date: 27 Jun 91 12:40:10 GMT
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>> In article <1124.2867637f@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes:
>>>On another note.  I was reading the article in AmigaMail about the
>>>asl.library.  Did anyone notice besides myself that, according to the
>>>article, if a font requestor is created the user can enter the point
>>>size regardless of whether that font point size existed.  The implication 
>>>was that the font would be scaled...and this was the bitmapped fonts!  
>>>Is this true, or did I misinterpet the article?  
>> 

And if you read the description of the command SETFONT in the 2.0 Manual you
will see the keyword SCALE.  SO, it seems that you don't have to use the
asl.library requestor in order to scale a font.  You don't even have to write
a program.  CBM provided us with one.  

Now the font scaling that setfont does can be buttugly at times but, it is 
there.  Now all we have to do is wait (im)patiently for 2.0x (>3) and the
promised outline fonts and then we will be all set!

Marc Siskin
Senior Media Designer
Language Resource Center
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

My opinions are my own.
Msiskin@shogun.css.itd.umich.edu