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This all reminds me of long ago back in the 1980s when we got a laser printer, before Apple started selling them. I can't remember who made ours but it was big and smelled like kerosene. I got a bunch of bitmapped fonts, perhaps from Stanford, but they were for a 200 dpi printer and ours was 300 dpi. The point sizes were part of the name of each font file. I hunkered down and wrote some code to convert them to the file format that our printer used.
I'll always remember how perplexed and amazed I was that the point sizes of a font were just some apparently arbitrary and random number. I.e., that a 9 point Times Roman wasn't the same size as a 9 point Courier.
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