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From: nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Gray scale fonts, question of availability
Message-ID: <14160@well.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 89 06:07:08 GMT
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Reply-To: nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle)
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     It should be straightforward to turn a character outline into a
grey-scale bitmapped character.  The obvious approach is to generate
the font in a large size, impose the grid of the desired smaller bitmap
over the large one, and tally the number of pixels on in each square of
the smaller bitmap to get a density value.  One might be able to do better
than this, but it's worth a try as a first cut.

					John Nagle