Re: Using fonts > 255 points

[90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Matt Deatherage's lips...
> 
> In yet another piece of trivia encountered over the years, on a standard
> IIgs RGB monitor with factory adjustments the 640-mode pixel dimensions are
> roughly 80 DPI horizontally by 36 DPI vertically.
> 
> (80 * 4.5 = 360, and the StyleWriter has 360 DPI resolution)

    So this means the StyleWriter driver assumes a resolution of 80 dpi
when rendering images?  Wouldn't this make a 72-point font only 0.9 inches
tall on paper?  72 * 4.5 = 324; 324/360 = 0.9"...  Not terribly accurate...

    Having gone through the previous posts in this thread, it seems (to me
anyway) that surpassing the 255-point limit without breaking the system
software is feasible if you have something like Pointless which will
generate such fonts.  I've had trouble making really big fonts in Pointless
2.0, but the system software doesn't seem to mind > 255-pixel fonts.  I'd
like to know what Alan Bird thinks of all this...

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