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From: borton@garnet.berkeley.edu (Chris "Johann" Borton)
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Subject: Re: PostScript/TrueType Question
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Date: 25 Sep 90 19:53:41 GMT
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In article <70500039@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>  (2) The only enhancement to Quickdraw since the Mac Plus has been
>	support for color.  This means no built-in spline support, no
>	support for rotation, no support for sophisticated image 
>	processing of grey-scale data (such as dithering or floyding).

32-bit QuickDraw includes dithering and does have some support for image
processing; I use it for JPEG color image compression.

The biggest problem I see for QD vs. PS is QD's lack of anything but
integers, making rounding a real problem like in zooming, for example.

-cbb