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From: jones@chpc.utexas.edu (William L. Jones)
Subject: Re: Outline scalable fonts versus bitmap replicated scalable fonts
Message-ID: <1993May16.232545.26857@chpc.utexas.edu>
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Date: Sun, 16 May 93 23:25:45 GMT
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After looking at the scaling code I realized the follwing:

  1) My problem with the resolution 100x100 foints is due to an installation 
     problem.

  2) That the X server or font server will rescale the best font it can find
     to meet your requirements.  

     This means that if you server return a response like the following

     -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1

     You can ask for the follwogin:

        -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--14-100-90-90-p-0-iso8859-1
 
     and it will generate it for you.  You should try to always use 
     known pixel sizes.  

Bill Jones



