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VMS Help FONT, Qualifiers, /MINBOX *Conan The Librarian |
/MINBOX
/NOMINBOX
On VAX only, specifies that the compiler produce the minimum
bounding box for each character in the font and adjust values
for the left bearing, right bearing, ascent, and descent of
each character accordingly. Character width is not affected.
Specifying the /MINBOX qualifier is equivalent to converting a
fixed font to a monospaced font.
Using the /MINBBOX qualifier has two advantages. Because the font
compiler produces minimum instead of fixed bounding boxes, the
resulting SNF file is significantly smaller than the comparable
fixed font SNF file. Consequently, both disk requirements for
storing the font and server memory requirements when a client
loads the font are reduced. Also, because the resulting font
comprises minimum inkable characters, server performance when
writing text is increased as much as 20 percent.
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