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From: shadow@pawl23.pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: bug in NeWS 1.1 or RTFM ?
Message-ID: <647@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 88 03:28:31 GMT
References: <220@nlgvax.UUCP>
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Reply-To: shadow@pawl23.pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine)
Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab - Troy, NY
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Keywords: scalefont

In article <220@nlgvax.UUCP> tom@nlgvax.UUCP (Tom v. Peer) writes:
>Anyone tried this or something like this in NeWS ?
>
>
>/Times-Roman findfont 
>150 scalefont setfont	% scale is not standard available, but I don't know if
>			% that has anything got to do with it
>100 100 moveto		% just for convenience
>(A) show		% gives you a 72 points "A"
>1 rotate		% you could also do "-1 -1 scale" but not "2 2 scale"
>(A) show		% gives you the 150 points "A" you actually wanted
>
>Am I just an inexperienced NeWs-clown or is something really wrong here ?
>
>Tom van Peer				| E-mail: mcvax!philmds!nlgvax!tom
>Nederlands Philips Bedrijven		|	  peer@vangogh.prl.philips.nl
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>Willem Alexanderlaan 7B			|
>5664 AN Geldrop - The Netherlands	| ...let my brother's hamster burn
>Tel: +31-40-892334			| in hell.      (J. Hiatt)

Yes, there is something really wrong here.  The problem is that Sun never
implemented the full font model in NeWS 1.0 or 1.1, regardless of what the
release notes for NeWS 1.1 say.  NeWS 1.1 is primarily a bug release.
NeWS uses only bitmap fonts, which I find to be extremely annoying.  I
have been told that NeWS 2.0 & 2.1 have the correct font model.  I'm
hoping.  I *didn't* know that rotating would force it to rescale it as it
should.  And no, that doesn't make you an inexperienced NeWS-clown.
It makes Sun seem a little foolish, but...

Deven T. Corzine
shadow@pawl.rpi.edu
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I need a .signature file...  :-(

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