- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:11:39 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Daniel Beardsmore wrote: > I don't know what "scaling fonts by eye" means. Fonts can be *enlarged* > to any size, but it's reducing them to small sizes that becomes very > hard as the screen resolution gets in the way. I believe that fonts are modified for reasons other than pixel fitting, so scaling by eye here meant that the person engraving the mould for the typeface would make adjustments so that the font looked right at the particular size. On the point about extracting a style sheet from PDF, I did say that you couldn't extract it mechanically. Obvious, if there was a real style sheet underlying the design, a human brain can probably deduce what it was, but that would be true if all you had was printed hardcopy. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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