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Article #476Re: Gray Scale Fonts in an Application
From: Laura Halliday
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1989 19:05
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1989 19:05
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In article <7988@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> curtj@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Curt Jutzi) writes: > > > Just out of curiousity.. Are there any text applications on the > Mac or the PC that take advantage of their gray scale abilities. >(stuff deleted...) > If you could add gray scale the clarity of the text > would be outstanding. Though I know of no commercial programs that do this, I've done it in some programs of my own. I found that I had some 240 dpi bitmap fonts floating around, and an 80 dpi screen (PS/2 VGA) to display them on. So I scaled the fonts down to 1/3 their original size in pixels, and used the additional information for anti-aliasing. Set the colour palette to some shades of grey, and you're off. The results are very nice to look at. > __ __ /| Curt Jutzi (Jutz) Tektronix Inc. > ((__ \ \'o.O` tektronix!curtj@pogo.WV Del. St. 63-356 > \\ ! =(___)= (503) 685-3723 P.O. Box 1000 > !!! U Wilsonville,OR 97070 > o_@@--.\ ACK! PHHT! > (___, / ...laura
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!cheddar.cc.ubc.ca!halliday From: halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Gray Scale Fonts in an Application Keywords: fonts, gray scale Message-ID: <5234@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 11 Oct 89 19:05:12 GMT References: <7988@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca Reply-To: halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) Organization: UBC Computing Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 26