Posted by Stewart Gordon on 01/20/06 15:37

Toby Inkster wrote:
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> Well, as it's a bitmapped font, it's only available at particular sizes.
> Off the top of my head, 8.5pt and 10pt are a couple of them. Perhaps Word
> hides it from the font menu unless you're in one of those sizes? Just an
> idea.

Not all printers support Windows bitmap fonts. If you have such a
printer set up as the default, many applications will not list them.

I haven't come across any program that adjusts its font list to the size
that the user is in. Rather, if you use a bitmap font at what isn't one
of its sizes, then it will tend to use the closest size it can,
sometimes using a pixel resize to achieve a multiple of one of the
font's sizes.

Of course, when you have a bitmap font selected, some programs will
adjust the list of sizes to the font.

Stewart.

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