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Article #97Re: DPS: Can it use GS to make characters appear to have better resolutions?
From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 08:10
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 08:10
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In article <1992Oct27.105536.12557@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes:
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>I believe "aliasing" (correct term?) allows a grey-scale monitor to display
>characters at seemingly higher resolution by using greys in spots where a font
>outline suggests an ambiguous decision of whether to put a pixel or not. Since
>my new 21" NeXT monitor has only 1024*768 resolution if driven by my NeXT, I
>wonder if DPS can at least use aliasing to make characters appear to be better
>shaped.
You're close... It's "anti-aliasing" and PostScript can't do it.
PostScript prefers high resolution output devices. (monitors are about
as low resolution as you can get).
andrew
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