brad@cayman.COM (Brad Parker) (10/19/88)
From article <5611@blia.BLI.COM>, by mao@blia.BLI.COM (Mike Olson): > 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? (now I'm *really* going out on a limb!) I understand that initially there is no attempt at anti-aliasing because display postscript does not (yet) support the concept, but that there is no reason why is could not be added; i.e. display postscript will no doubt do anti-aliasing in the future and anti-aliased fonts will appear. (insert comment here from adobe about anti-aliasing in display postscript;-) -- "What will you do when you wake up one morning to find that God's made you blind in a beautiful person's world and all those great recepies have let you down, and you're twenty and a half and you're not getting age where you go look for the boys 'says I love you lets get married and have kids." -Billy Bragg.