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From: tut%cairo@Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Scaleable fonts
Message-ID: <132346@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 90 21:57:09 GMT
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In article <203@van-bc.UUCP>, jtc@van-bc.UUCP (J.T. Conklin) writes:
> I am writing an application in which I need to generate high-quality
> font glyphs at arbitrary sizes and raster resolutions.  Since this is
> an interactive application, Cons'ing up a mode_def and spawning METAFONT
> to generate the font is not an option.

Why don't you write the application under NeWS, Display PostScript,
or X11/NeWS?  I wouldn't exactly say all three are readily available,
but one of three *IS* available on hardware from (in alphabetic order)
DEC, NeXT, SGI, and Sun.  This "cons'ing up a mode_def" bit wouldn't
indicate you have a Symbolics workstation, would it?

Bill