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From: darren@cbmvax.commodore.com (Darren Greenwald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Bitmapped font scaling?  AmigaMail!
Message-ID: <22734@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 14:39:00 GMT
References: <1124.2867637f@vger.nsu.edu> <14290@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1129.286894b2@vger.nsu.edu>
Reply-To: darren@cbmvax.commodore.com (Darren Greenwald)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1129.286894b2@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes:
>In article <14290@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas) writes:
>> In article <1124.2867637f@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes:
>>>...revised Workbench under AmigaDOS 2.0 was to add more multitasking.  
>
>I can see the point of seeing the generated font prior to selecting it,
>but I wonder what happens and how long it takes on a non-accellerated
>machine to generate a 99 point font?  What happens when the font is
>generated... is this font saved to disk?  If so, what happens if the
>disk is full?  What is the result code from the requestor?   How does
>the user abort the generation if it is not what he wants?

Takes possibly a few seconds on a slow machine to scale a font this
large.  The font is in memory only, and will be flushed if the
viewer closes the font (and the memory is needed).  I don't see
that its a big problem to show another size - in most cases the
user would click on an existing size, and would manually enter
another - in the later case the user would soon learn scaled fonts
(bitmapped scaled) take a few moments to generate.

>
>I am not flaming, but I feel the AmigaMail article left out some
>interesting details.
>

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