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- From: freek@phil.ruu.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
- Subject: Re: "Hinting" using antialiasing? A GNUish alternative...
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- pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
- >However, given that in most common day use one uses only two sets of
- >fonts, one for the screen and one for printer, I am particularly
- >thinking of keeping around printer resolution bitmaps, which are the
- >ones that after all matter most, and then scaling them on the fly to the
- >screen resolution.
-
- This seems to correspond nicely with the "rule of thumb" on page 643
- in the second edition of Foley, van Dam, &c:
-
- Note that, no matter what filter is used to postfilter the samples,
- damage caused by an inadequate initial sampling rate will not be
- repaired. A rule of thumb is that supersampling four times in each
- of _x_ and _y_ often will be satisfactory [WHIT85]. This works
- because the high frequencies in most graphics images are caused by
- discontinuities at edges, which have a Fourier transform that tapers
- off rapidly (like the Fourier transform of a pulse---the sinc).
-
- This factor of four is almost equal to the factor 300/72 between the
- resolution of the commonest printers and that of the commonest
- screens. (Note that "letters" have sharp edges.)
-
- Freek
- --
- Third theory of Phenomenal Dynamics: The difference between
- a symbol and an object is quantitative, not qualitative.
-