On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Stefano Franchi wrote:

All typographers and font designers routinely complain that "bigger font"
<> scaled up font (and viceversa), because the typeface features must be
manually adjusted to convey the same look in different sizes. However, I
doubt that considerations of typographic beauty play a a large role when
making a poster.

Stefano,

  What started this is the use of a Web browser for display of presentation
visuals by one of the local computer professionals. He apparently likes to
have only a few words (<6, apparently) per slide and in a very large size.
He cannot write the text using OO.o and have the resulting huge text look
smooth at those sizes. I suggested he consider using the beamer class in
LyX/LaTeX, but he is interested only in generating anti-aliased huge
characters for his browser-based presentation. I think that as long at the
edges look smooth he'll be happy.

Thanks,

Rich

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