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From: doug@eris (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Standard font formats.
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Date: 8 Apr 88 19:33:50 GMT
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In article <8421@sol.ARPA> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>The problem with storing low resolution fonts as outlines is
>quantization error. [...]
>PostScript seems to be quite successful at automatic smoothing at low
>resolution, I wonder how they do it. It's all hidden in their firmware,
>no doubt.

On a slightly different subject, last week I posted an article to
an Amiga newsgroup in response to a question about how to algorithmically
smooth enlargements of low resolution *bitmap* fonts. There is a
definite connection with non-bitmap formats, although I didn't address
that (it's a conceptual "how to" about low pass spatial filtering).

If there's sufficient interest I could post it (actually a pair
of articles) here, or otherwise mail it to interested parties.

	Doug Merritt		doug@mica.berkeley.edu (ucbvax!mica!doug)
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