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Subject: Font magnification programs
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Date: Sat, 18-May-85 06:58:30 EDT
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From: ihnp4!ukma!sean@uw-beaver.arpa (Sean Casey)



     Any fanatics  out  there  have  any  "smart"  font  magnification
programs?   We  have  an  Imagen 8/300, and are using System 5 ditroff
with dimp.  What I have been doing recently is converting our  Berkely
fonts  over  to  RST  format  so  that we may use them with our Imagen
software. The problem is that when I convert the  Versatec  fonts  the
result  is  several  point  sizes  smaller (a facter of almost 1/2). I
don't know yet why the size difference is so great, since  240/300  is
not a ratio anywhere near 2.

     There is a fontmag program included with  the  dimp  distribution
that  allows  one to magnify a font to an arbitrary point size, but as
it says in the documentation, the greater the  magnification  diverges
from  unity,  the  worse  the result looks. I could sit there and hand
edit the results, but I simply do not have the time  to  edit  several
hundred glyphs.

     So I'm looking for some help in the  form  of  a  "smarter"  font
magnifier,  one that would be reasonable about knowing what a curve is
and how it should look when magnified.  I suspect that  some  fanatics
out  there have designed such a thing.  Does anyone have or know about
such a program?




Thanks,

Sean Casey                              UUCP:   {cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean
Department of Mathematics               ARPA:   ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA
University of Kentucky