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From: hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert J. Hammen)
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Subject: Re: courier 11 pt screen font
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Date: 27 Apr 89 13:04:07 GMT
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In article <1181@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>In article <348@wjh12.harvard.edu> drg@wjh12.UUCP (Dean R Gallant) writes:
>>(wants 11 point Courier screen fonts)
>There's a program called FontSizer that's available for about a
...
>when you go above 24 pt.), but I don't see why it couldn't be used for
>smaller type sizes as well.

Because the program will only let you generate fonts from 12 to 127 point.
QuickDraw doesn't support greater than 127 point, and I imagine the problem
with smaller than 12 point is that it's just too difficult to make the bitmap
you get back from the LaserWriter into a screen font at those sizes. The fonts
that FontSizer generates at, say, 72 points are not as "crisp-looking" as an
actual 72 point screen font, but it's sure a lot better than what QuickDraw 
will give you if you don't have a 72 point font installed! 

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