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- From: christie@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Chris Tham)
- Subject: Re: Metafont to scalable outline font formats
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- References: <1993Jan26.103951.24173@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <WALSH.93Jan26170650@ibis.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:31:48 GMT
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- In article <WALSH.93Jan26170650@ibis.cs.umass.edu> walsh@cs.umass.edu writes:
- >In point of fact, resolution enhancement is automatic. Any LJ driver that
- >sends output to the LaserJet III printer (or any other HP printer with
- >res. enh.) automatically gets the benefit of HP's efforts to make the
- >300dpi LJ printer look better.
-
- Can someone with a better understanding of RET care to explain how Resolution
- Enhancement works on bitmapped fonts and graphics? I can understand why
- it work work on scalable fonts and HPGL (because the internal rasteriser
- adjusts the dot size according to the outline or graphics command) but I
- can't see why RET should work on bitmaps (including bitmapped fonts) unless
- there is a little bit of AI in the RET code that guesses which edges need
- to be filled up and how. If there _is_ some intelligence I would be wary
- on how it would handle images and would probably want to turn it off.
-
- christie
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