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From: hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert J. Hammen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Screenfonts: Adobe or Apple?
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Date: 12 Jan 89 00:13:35 GMT
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In article <84832@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>  3.	Why did Adobe drop the 9 point fonts?  Ok, a few of the fonts have
>>	  a single 9 point resource, but only in the basic style... 
>
>Except in a few instances, Adobe never had 9pt fonts. I think the primary
>reason is that for most faces, 9pt on a screen is getting close to
>unreadable. If you really want them (I really want them, too) the best bet
>is FontSizer, which will let you create any size font you want. 

Except that FontSizer will only generate screen fonts in point sizes 12-127.
Anything smaller than 12 point is just too difficult to scale into decent-
looking screen fonts. (side note: FontSizer does its magic by having the
LaserWriter build a bitmap of each character of that font at the requested
size. It then grabs the bitmap back from the LaserWriter and makes it into
the appropriate screen font. Pretty slow, but still pretty neat).

Robert

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