Re: A Proposal...

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4k2q3t$8nh@pith.uoregon.edu>,
Neil Parker <nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> In article <4jtult$j27@atlantis.atlantis.actrix.gen.nz>
> dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
> >It would be possible for a specially written printer driver to use a
> >larger point size font internally and send it directly to the printer,
> >if such a font was available (I doubt that Pointless can generate one,
> >because it will have the same 255 point size limit).  The font file
> >format is probably also limited to 255 points.
> 
> No, the font file format doesn't limit fonts to 255 points--the point size
> field is two bytes wide.

I was thinking more of the offset/width table, but didn't want to go
into too much detail (and didn't have the manual handy to refresh my
memory).

In addition to the 255-pixel width limit, there are also some upper
limits on the size of the various tables, mainly due to internal
limitations in the Font Manager (which were relaxed to some extent
at some point after System 5.0, allowing font files larger than 64K, for
example).
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
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