Re: Large italic fonts

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1993Nov19.220508.6550@coplex.coplex.com>, Dan Crutcher writes...
> 
> That is correct. If you have a font that specifically contains an Italic
> version, it will print large-size italics fine. Otherwise, the limit is
> something like 30 points. There was a discussion about this on GEnie
> some  months ago. Not sure if the bug is in TextEdit or in the printer
> driver.  I seem to recall the discussion was in the Vitesse (Harmonie)
> topic.

    I believe it is in TextEdit, because I see the same problem on the
screen at very large point sizes.  Pre-styled fonts work fine, but not
all fonts have an italic face.  Also, it only seems to affect that style
-- shadow, bold, underline and outline work at any size.
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