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sn#309382 filedate 1977-10-08 generic text, type T, neo UTF8
FSCALE scales fonts. It asks for input and output font file names
(with the usual default extension/directory), then tells you the
height of the input font and asks for the desired height of the output
font. The default is no change, in which case FSCALE merely optimises
the format of the file to save any space it can. (E.g., it trims
empty columns off the right using character width and raster width to
get the same effect.) FSCALE also asks for a threshhold, which must
be between 0 and 1. The default is .5, and typically it should be
between .45 and .55.
FSCALE works by mapping each point of the scaled font onto the
original font, and computing the weighted average of the four
surrounding points. If this weighted average is above the threshhold,
the point is made dark in the new font.