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From: curtj@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curt )
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Fuzzy fonts??
Message-ID: <6204@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM>
Date: 31 Oct 88 02:42:54 GMT
References: <3448@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: curtj@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curt (Jutz) Jutzi)
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In article <3448@pt.cs.cmu.edu> cbs@cad.cs.cmu.edu (Clauss Strauch) writes:
>
>     In comp.sys.next there's been a thread of discussion concerning
>so-called "fuzzy" (anti-aliased) fonts on CRTs.   Can anybody in netland
>provide more information? 


	Peter Karow from URW addresses this topic in his book on fonts.
	I don't have the book with me or I would give you more information.

	The concept is quite simple.  You generate a larger raster image of 
	the character and reduce it by averaging the pixels around it.

	ie. for a display that has 4 gray levels you would generate a 
	character 2 times the point size and simply take groups of 2x2 
	matrices within that image to generate none display pixel.


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