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Re: Font scaling and string size problem?!?
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Re: Font scaling and string size problem?!?


  • Subject: Re: Font scaling and string size problem?!?
  • From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:53:31 +0200


On 17.09.2005, at 07:15, glenn andreas <email@hidden> wrote:

So as a result, the metrics of a font changes with the size in a non- linear form for both practical and aesthetic reasons, so it would be extremely rare if a string in 60pt text were exactly 6 times wider than 10pt text (sometimes you're lucky if it is 6 time taller).

Well I have been lucky to find 3 of these rare fonts where "a string in 60pt text is exactly 6 times wider than 10pt text",


I found that:

[[NSFont userFontOfSize: fsize ] advancementForGlyph: [ffs glyphWithName: @"m" ]].width == 0.833008 * fsize

regardless for fsize. Tested for fsize = 3 ... 60pt in steps of 3 on Panther.

Same for systemFontOfSize: CGS LucidaGrande with a constant factor of 0.933594.
Same for CGS Times-Roman with a constant factor of 0.777832.


Could you tell me a font which actually has this non-linear behaviour you were mentioning?


Kind regards,

Gerriet.

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