| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
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Is there any method to do font-scaling but is not implemented on the
Server part? Actually, I'm talking about local language fonts. A
customer of mine wants to have this function but we don't want them
to implement this function on the Server and thereafter has to maintain
the Server by themselves.
Is there any way to do this?
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| 3042.1 | STAR::KLEINSORGE | Fred Kleinsorge, VMS Development | Fri Jul 06 1990 09:52 | 22 | |
Hmmm. This is a recurring question. I'll give an answer, and Peter
Davis will follow it with more info :-)
Font scaling can be accomplished in a variety of fashions:
o Display Postscript (DPS). Font scaling is inherent.
o Stroke or Outline Fonts - that is, vectors or polygons
are drawn to form the gyphs.
o Raster font scaling. If you have a copy of the glyph
raster (which you can get by drawing the glyph to a bitmap
and reading the bitmap), there are various ways to scale
a raster. Several applications such as DECwrite and UISX
implement this approach.
I'm not a big supporter of any of these means (even though I have
used the last option in the list). They all complicate a rather
common requirement by program complexity, or overkill. There "should"
be a extension defined and implemented.
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