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- From: kermit@infi.net (Kermit Woodall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Smooooth Text, how?
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 02:27:29 GMT
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- Corinna Cohn (gemini@indy.net) wrote:
- :
- : Okay.
- :
- : I have not found a way yet to make nice, smooth, anti-aliased text.
- :
- : I have ImageFX, but it can't handle PostScript fonts.
- :
- : So I use Art Expression to make the font, export it as iff.
- :
- : It looks terrible.
- :
- A solution I've seen used by professionals is to use a Postscript supporting
- package to create the text, already antialiased, then composite the
- resulting picture in ImageFX.
-
- Alternately, if your other package doesn't antialias the fonts either, make
- the image twice as large as you need, then scale it down in ImageFX before
- you make your composite. You'll get nice antialiased edges this way.
-
- Kermit Woodall
- Nova Design, Inc.
- Kermit@cup.portal.com
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