laser-lovers@uw-beaver (05/18/85)
From: ihnp4!ukma!sean@uw-beaver.arpa (Sean Casey)
Any fanatics out there have any "smart" font magnification
programs? We have an Imagen 8/300, and are using System 5 ditroff
with dimp. What I have been doing recently is converting our Berkely
fonts over to RST format so that we may use them with our Imagen
software. The problem is that when I convert the Versatec fonts the
result is several point sizes smaller (a facter of almost 1/2). I
don't know yet why the size difference is so great, since 240/300 is
not a ratio anywhere near 2.
There is a fontmag program included with the dimp distribution
that allows one to magnify a font to an arbitrary point size, but as
it says in the documentation, the greater the magnification diverges
from unity, the worse the result looks. I could sit there and hand
edit the results, but I simply do not have the time to edit several
hundred glyphs.
So I'm looking for some help in the form of a "smarter" font
magnifier, one that would be reasonable about knowing what a curve is
and how it should look when magnified. I suspect that some fanatics
out there have designed such a thing. Does anyone have or know about
such a program?
Thanks,
Sean Casey UUCP: {cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean
Department of Mathematics ARPA: ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA
University of Kentucky