Non scalable fonts have been the bane of my eyes for the last several
years, as 1024x768 displays 10 point font Tms Rmn too small to read.
Not being able to use the font size increase keys would be the pita.
Bill
Michael Kaply wrote:
>
> A couple weeks ago I put in a fix that made it so that bitmap fonts were
> never scaled.
>
> This allowed WarpSans to always display correctly, regardless of the
> scaling on the page. It used to turn into Times New Roman.
>
> This fix caused Tms Rmn and Helv to have the same behavior - a 24 point
> Tms Rmn displays at 12 points because this is the largest bitmap Tms
> Rmn.
>
> Here's my question. For Tms Rmn and Helv ONLY, should I convert them to
> Times New Roman and Helvetica respectively so that they can be scaled?
> Or should they not be scaled because they are bitmap fonts.
>
> Note that we are going to default the font to Tms Rmn, so things like
> <H1> and <H2> look smaller than they should because of this.
>
> Mike Kaply
> IBM
