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From: davidl@intelob.omepd (David Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Displaying 96-point Fonts
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Date: 4 Aug 88 17:37:47 GMT
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I recently got copies of the LaserWriter II SC fonts disks, which
include Times, Helvetica, Courier and Symbol at sizes up to 96 points.
"Great!"  thought I, "Now I can have top-quality letters up to two
inches high in bitmap documents!"  Alas, it doesn't seem to work.

When I load all sizes of Helvetica (over 350K for ONE FONT...
Helvetica 96 alone is over 130K) into my System, selecting Helvetica
96 results in blank space on the screen.  When I type, the
(two-inch-high!) insertion point moves but nothing is displayed.  I
tried MacPaint 1.4 and 2.0, MS Word 3.01, SuperPaint demo version, and
ReadySetGo 4.0a: all have the same non-effect.  They can display
96-point letters when scaled up from smaller sizes, but not actual
96-point letters.  72-point works OK.

Font/DA Mover displays the upper half-inch or so of the font, so I
know it's really there.  ResEdit displays the lower right corner of
each letter in the character-selection pane of its FONT editing
window, but no sample appears in the sample-text pane and there's no
character to edit in the character-editing pane.

These large fonts are meant for printing at 1/4 their size, not for screen
display.  I suspect that I've run into a limitation of the Font Manager.
But please, can someone figure out a way I can type 96-point Times headers
in my MacPaint flyers?  (Can we look forward to a Font Manager extension
in a future System release?)

Yes, I still use MacPaint for some things.  I'd love to use
Illustrator or FreeHand, but I don't have a laser printer and they're
very expensive...

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