Re: Curious about Pointless - example?

["Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com>]

"Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com> wrote in message
news:9gcpk0$kgk$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>
> Verdana 9 and 11 point bitmap fonts, converted from TrueType by Pointless:
>
>   http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/verdana.shk
>
> I've posted some pictures of the results here:
>
>   http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/geneva.gif
>   http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/verdana.gif
>   http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/webdings.gif
>
> Depending on the font anything less than about 8 or 9 points starts to
lose
> it since the screen doesn't have sufficient resolution. On a printer
though
> it looks great. Also the IIgs screen doesn't have square pixels, so most
> fonts look stretched, but this is true of bitmap fonts too.

Thank you, Roger!  This is exactly what I was looking for - and you're
right, it does look great!

Rodney