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From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Gray Scale Fonts in an Application
Keywords: fonts, gray scale
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Date: 11 Oct 89 19:05:12 GMT
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In article <7988@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> curtj@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Curt Jutzi) writes:
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>	Just out of curiousity.. Are there any text applications on the
>	Mac or the PC that take advantage of their gray scale abilities.
>(stuff deleted...)
>	          If you could add gray scale the clarity of the text 
>	would be outstanding.

Though I know of no commercial programs that do this, I've done it in some
programs of my own. I found that I had some 240 dpi bitmap fonts floating
around, and an 80 dpi screen (PS/2 VGA) to display them on. So I scaled the
fonts down to 1/3 their original size in pixels, and used the additional
information for anti-aliasing. Set the colour palette to some shades of grey,
and you're off.

The results are very nice to look at.

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...laura