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- From: 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Turning Truetypes into PICT's
- Message-ID: <9212130835.AA16592@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 08:35:02 GMT
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- mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz) writes...
- >
- > Since it is possible to take TrueType Font data and use Pointless to render
- > a bitmap font, would it be possible to translate the TrueType data into a
- > PICT? If this was possible, we could generate a PICT of "A" and then scale
- > it to any size.
-
- You would have to approximate the Bezier curves with short line
- segments. I suppose if you use short enough lines and you don't mind
- many-sided polygons in place of smooth curves, it could be done.
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