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From: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: bug in NeWS 1.1 or RTFM ?
Message-ID: <432@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Apr 88 12:03:03 GMT
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Reply-To: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK.
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Keywords: scalefont
Summary: bug.
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It's a bug. Some genius decided on an optimization that looks
to see if the font matrix amounts to [ x 0 0 y ? ?] and if it
does, then only sign(y) and x matters. Other effects of this are:

1 75 scale      has no effect on the letter sizes
1 -75 scale     turns letters upsidedown but doesn't scale them

Furthermore, if you don't have a ".fm" file for your font (e.g.
Screen-Bold) then it won't get turned upsidedown either.
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William Roberts         ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk  (gw: cs.ucl.edu)
Queen Mary College      UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP
LONDON, UK              Tel:  01-980 4811 ext 3933