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From: curtj@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curt )
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Fuzzy fonts??
Message-ID: <6214@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 88 16:14:03 GMT
References: <6204@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM> <3448@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <7011@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: curtj@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curt "Jutz" Jutzi)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
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In article <7011@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU
>(Wayne A. Christopher) writes:
>In article <6204@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM>, curtj@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curt Jutzi)
>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?

	I have no idea what you are referring to here.  
	This technique is used with a display surface that has gray levels.
	Hardcopy, at this time, is BLACK and WHITE (or color).  It also has
	nothing to do directly with PostScript.  

	Book Ref.

		Digital Formats for Typefaces
		Peter Karow
		URW Verlag Kreienkoppel 55 2000 Hamburg 65 West Germany
		(C) 1987  
		ISBN 3-926515-01-5
		ISBN 3-926515-00-7
	

	"FUZZY FONTS" as you call them, are only addressed on pages
	pp. 42 - 44.  I would not recommend the book.

	I have seen the output displayed on a display with 16 gray levels,
	at URW in Germany.  The quality is quite good.

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