RE: [ft-devel] query font sizes

[jameswh77]

thanks for the info

yes i believed it for that reason, but also... because i thought it clearly
looked better when rendered at those sizes.  

but as you are the second person to have told me that, i guess im wrong...

thanks!!!

james



Bevan, David wrote:
> 
> James,
> 
> I'm guess that you believe that Arial has sizes 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 ...
> because those are the sizes 'offered' in some (Microsoft?) application.
> 
> Arial can in fact be rendered at any point size. It is TrueType outline
> font. (And MS apps actually allow you to choose any point size in
> increments of 0.5pt.)
> 
> Hth,
> 
> David %^>
> 
> 
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>> Subject: [ft-devel] query font sizes
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>> 
>> hi
>> 
>> im using freetype for rendering and its working fine.  however i would
>> like
>> to query the list of available sizes which the font has.  for example
>> arial
>> has 8,9,10,11,14,16,18 etc etc.  is it possible to enumurate these?
> when
>> i
>> load arial, the "num_fixed_sizes" is 0.  ive tried enumarating the
>> face->sizes_list too, but i cant get any useful data out of this.
>> 
>> im pretty confused - can somebody help?
>> 
>> best
>> james
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