Why does this happen? (fonts)

Running the code below, use Q and A keys to change the width of the font. When the font gets down to a certain width, it's vertical resolution jumps from normal to bloktastic. Is this a bug?

Graphics 800,600,32,60
font:TimageFont=LoadImageFont("Jedi Normal.ttf",48)
SetImageFont(font)
SetBlend ALPHABLEND
sx#=1.0
Repeat
	Cls
	If KeyDown(KEY_Q) sx:+0.001
	If KeyDown(KEY_A) sx:-0.001
	SetScale sx,1.0
	DrawText "hellooOO!!",100,100
	Flip
Until KeyHit(KEY_ESCAPE)

The font I was using...
<EDIT> Last link wasn't a free one. This is...
www.searchfreefonts.com/fonts/j7.htm
It's the top font on the page.

try insert this code for complete testing font load:

font:TimageFont=LoadImageFont("Jedi Normal.ttf",48)
if font = 0
  Notify "font not load"
  end
endif

solution: have to use full path to font as "C:\MyProjects\Media\Jedi Normal.ttf"

Thanks, Vlad, but that's no the problem. The font loads fine... stick that mod in if you need it to get things working your end. Do you not see the problem I mention in my first post?

I do not have that Jedi font, but with the standard system font, when I held down the a key, the word eventually ended up being printed backwards, I guess sx went negative.

The font never jumped to bloktastic, whatever that means. What does bloktastic mean?

HAve you tried loading it with the smoothing flag?

Hi guys.

What I mean by blocktastic: Suddenly jumps to a vertical resolution of about 8 pixels instead of the 48 I loaded it at. The horizontal resolution seems un-affected. This is whilst sx is still >0.

I would really appreciate if someone could repeat with the same font (the link's in my original post), and see if they get the same effect.

Grey: Yeah tried the smoothing flag.. same result. SMOOTHFONT is the default anyways according to the docs, but they could be wrong.

That link takes me to a page to buy the font. No free download that I can see. Sorry, I am not going to buy that font. :)

Sorry mate... I already had the font just found a quick link for it. I didn't realise it was a paid one... it even says FREE in the URL! I promise this was not some confidence skam to get a few pennies out of my fellow Blitzers!

This one is free..
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/fonts/j7.htm

It's the top one on the page.

OK, got your font and ran it. I still did not see any crazy change in the vertical size of the font.

I am running WinXP if that maybe matters some how...

Editted: No change in vertical size at all...

Thanks for that, TaskMaster.

Just to clarify, the font doesn't get smaller vertically. It just goes blocky in the vertical plane. I guess this doesn't change your answer, so it's something specific to my setup. I'm on XP too.