Re: Soft Fonts

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From: Kent Borg
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1989 20:36

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In article <33865@apple.Apple.COM> steele@Apple.COM (Oliver Steele) writes:
>
>I've found several papers on soft fonts in the stacks lying around my
>desk.  One of them is the study showing that soft fonts are more
>legible than hard ones.  The papers are listed at the end of this
>article; a summary of them follows:

[Which I found very interesting.]

Has anybody seen any studies on the value of soft graphics?  My point
when I re-started this tread is that Apple will not be implementing
antialiased fonts, rather they will do the antialiasing in a new
QuickDraw and make all those diagonal lines and circles look better,
*plus* the fonts will be antialiased.

Any of you spent time looking at antialiased graphics?  (I guess we do
on TV all the time...)  Any hard (or soft) data on the value in such a
thing?

Kent Borg
kent@lloyd.uucp
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...!husc6!lloyd!kent

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<587GDAU100@BGUVM> <26548@amdcad.AMD.COM> <24101@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <458@lloyd.camex.uucp> <3300@internal.Apple.COM> <24388@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <33865@apple.Apple.COM>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!rex!ukma!husc6!lloyd!kent
From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Soft Fonts
Message-ID: <467@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 11 Aug 89 20:36:23 GMT
References: <587GDAU100@BGUVM> <26548@amdcad.AMD.COM> <24101@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <458@lloyd.camex.uucp> <3300@internal.Apple.COM> <24388@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <33865@apple.Apple.COM>
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