Changing font size only for height or width

[cypressm]

Hi,

Is it possible to resize a font (like scalefont command), but only for the height or for the width of the font.

For example :
10 for the width of the font
20 for the height of the font

Thanks !

 

[popalu]

/Helvetica-Bold findfont [37 0 0 57 0 0] makefont setfont

Sets the height and width of a font

 

[popalu]

Sorry forgot to add

'/Courier findfont 3 scalefont setfont' scales the font to a pitch of 3

using this line

'/Helvetica-Bold findfont [37 0 0 57 0 0] makefont setfont' scales the font to whatever you set the 37 and 57 value to

Hope that helps

 

[cypressm]

Thanks a lot, I'm going to test that.

 

[tgreer]

You can also use "scale" non-uniformly to alter the entire graphics state.

For example, to set a 10-point font at 2x width:

/Courier 10 selectfont
10 10 moveto
gsave
1 2 scale
(Test) show
grestore

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