Re: Metric font transformations with dvips

[lcs@math.u-psud.fr (Laurent SIEBENMANN)]

Lars & Berthold & others

 BKPH> The least confusing way of dealing with anistropic 
 > scaling is to keep one axis fixed and to then 
 > adjust the overall size isotropically using TeX's 
 > font commands.  That way you can use the existing 
 > DVIPS mechansim for doing the scaling. 

What about font scaling (even isotropic!!) *without* 
having TeX available.  I have wanted that to get reasonable 
font substitutions in DVIs destined for dvips.

Cheers

Larry Siebenmann