richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (08/13/88)
In article <3588@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes: > >I'd love to be proven wrong. Please, someone, show me an >anti-aliased font on the Amiga with which I can get an 80 >column display on my 704 pixel monitor, and I'll jump right >on the bandwagon. But until then, forget it for the standard >Amiga monitor. The Hedley, maybe. I'm sorry, I should have made myself more clear. I was adressing the 2024 monitor. -- Who are these ones that would lead us now ? richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard
lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) (08/13/88)
From article <3588@polya.Stanford.EDU>, by rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki): " Okay, I've seen enough discussion of anti-aliased fonts. About " two years ago when I was looking for improvements for AmigaTeX " and the previewer, I tried working with anti-aliased fonts. And " gave up. " ... After seeing somewhere a remark by Alan Kay about anti-aliased fonts being even better when multiple colors are available, I wrote a font editor to create multi-color fonts and a text viewer to use them. Looked awful. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) (08/16/88)
In article <2246@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes: > >After seeing somewhere a remark by Alan Kay about anti-aliased fonts >being even better when multiple colors are available, I wrote a >font editor to create multi-color fonts and a text viewer to use >them. Looked awful. > Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu I beg to differ. It really depends what you are attempting to do with the anti-aliasing. I made a simple FIXEDWIDTH font for low resolution screens that was admittedly very simple and "blocky". Leaving the corners out of all the "round" characters got rid of some of the blockiness but showed the individual pixels too clearly. The answer; put a halfbrite dot in all the corners that should appear rounded. (I did this by making another font which comprised of just the anti-aliasing dots and then rendered it over the original characters in JAM1 mode). It looks great. I now have a similar proportional font that gives me anything from 50 to 70 characters per line on a low res screen. It's eminently readable and actually looks a lot better than some of the 80 column fonts I've seen. Steve