oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (05/10/89)
In article <60053@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> jellinghaus-robert@yale.UUCP writes: >1) Will support for gray-scaled, anti-aliased fonts be used in System 7.0? > Anti-aliased fonts are fonts in which the edges of the letters are smoothed > by gray pixels. 14 months ago, I wrote a program that given a Macintosh font, generates a half-size gray-scale, anti-aliased font, of maximum sharpness. (So gray pixels occur mostly infrequently, along curves, and rarely along every pixel of an edge, where they are percieved as blur.) These fonts are almost useless. 1.) because almost all existing text editing programs use one-bit deep offscreen bitmaps, so when text is drawn offscreen, then CopyBits()ed to the screen, all the gray pixels turn black. 2.) because the existing architecture doesn't provide any easy way to use gray-scale fonts if the destination is the CRT, but substitute a higher-resolution, non-grayscale version, if the destination is a printer. Now, if some major wordprocessor vendor would like to get a jump on the competition by licensing my anti-aliasing technology from me, and upgrading their product to use multi-bit per pixel offscreen pixmaps, and do the appropriate substitution at print time, come talk to me. --- David Phillip Oster --"When we replace the mouse with a pen, Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --3 button mouse fans will need saxophone Uucp: {uwvax,decvax}!ucbvax!oster%dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --lessons." - Gasee