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From: faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Fuzzy fonts??
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Date: 1 Nov 88 20:57:53 GMT
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In article <6204@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM>, curtj@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curt ) writes:
> 	The concept is quite simple.  You generate a larger raster image of 
> 	the character and reduce it by averaging the pixels around it.

Does this mean that if PostScript draws characters by drawing some combination
of filled and unfilled polygons, all you have to do is modify the routines
to draw the polygons in order to get fuzzy fonts?

> 	Peter Karow from URW addresses this topic in his book on fonts.

Could you post a reference to this book?

	Wayne