- From: Clive Bruton <clive@typonaut.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 97 18:11:57 +0100
- To: www-font@w3.org
Chris Lilley wrote at 18/8/97 4:49 pm
>In terms of font rendering, hinted anti-aliased greyscale rendering
>to generate an alpha map which composits the foreground color (or image)
>against the background color (or image) is the current state of the art;
>the font smoothing technology in the Windows95 plus pack (on Win32),
>SmoothType 1.3 (on the Mac), the Bitstream anti-aliased TrueType,
>Type1 and TrueDoc renderers, the BeOS font display system and the
>Archimedes RISCOS font system are the current state of the commercial
>art. There are also freeware Type1 and TrueType rendering engines out
>there; I don't have the references handy right now.
Current "state of the art" for Mac screen rendering is (and always has
been) Adobe Type Manager, v4.0 (available for almost a year) adds
anti-aliasing facilities for Type 1 (at the users discretion).
>In terms of font formats for online use, OpenType, TrueType GX and
>Type1CID have the most impressive capabilities, with TrueDoc PFR and
>Agfa Microtype Express ("embedded opentype) being the current
>favourite delivery formats.
For those interested in screen rendering quality TrueDoc is not an
option, since it destroys the integrity of the font in its production
process. It may yet prove to have intellectual property problems in
countries that have copyright protection for type design (ie most of the
developed world outside of the US).
Received on Monday, 18 August 1997 13:46:03 UTC