On Wednesday 28 August 2002 8:53 pm, Brian Stell wrote: | "Ken Deeter (Kentarou SHINOHARA)" wrote: | > ... | > Hmm.. i'm not sure this would be so helpful for kanji characters | > since often two parallel one-pixel width lines will be one pixel | > apart. Any grayness in between will just make things look really | > smudged. | | I have very similar concerns for scaling Kanji bitmaps in mozilla | but the Japanese and Chinese useres I've talked to report that | they really like it and I have not had any negative reports. | | Also see chapter 2 of the Truetype spec: | | http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tt/tt.htm | | EBSC - Embedded Bitmap Scaling Table | | The ‘EBSC’ table provides a mechanism for describing embedded | bitmaps which are created by scaling other embedded bitmaps. | While this is the sort of thing that outline font technologies | were invented to avoid, there are cases (small sizes of Kanji, | for example) where scaling a bitmap produces a more legible | font than scan-converting an outline. For this reason the | ‘EBSC’ table allows a font to define a bitmap strike as a | scaled version of another strike.
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