[alt.next] NeXT fonts, anti-aliasing

mao@blia.BLI.COM (Mike Olson) (10/18/88)

In article <1570@cayman.COM>, brad@cayman.COM (Brad Parker) writes:
> I suspect the 2 bits of gray scale allows them to use "gray scale fonts" which
> give the machines more "apparent" resolution.

i'd have thought so, too.  i saw the press release glossy distributed at the
introduction, though, and the fonts looked pretty rough; in particular, lots
of jaggies.  anyone know why the fonts aren't anti-aliased?  given the size
of the disk, it's probably not a space consideration...

					mike olson
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