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Anti-aliasing / font smoothing links

This page lists links and print references relating to smooth font technology.

Don't forget to download our Free Windows 95 font smoother. With this small utility you can activate font smoothing (also known as grayscaling or anti-aliasing) in Windows 95 without having to purchase and install the Windows 95 Plus! pack.

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Adobe Type Manager Deluxe
Adobe have recently added font smoothing to their Adobe Type Manager Deluxe product. The product is available for Windows 95 and Apple Macintosh and anti-aliases Adobe Type 1 fonts.

Aliasing: the blind spot of the computer industry
Article by Nicholas Negroponte that originally appeared in Wired 2.01.

Anti-aliasing
PC Webopaedia's explanation of anti-aliasing and list of links.

Creating graphics for the Web: Anti-aliasing
This tutorial was posted by Wide Area Communications.

PostScript Anti-aliasing
An explanation of how anti-aliasing can be used for print output.

SmoothType 1.1
A $5 shareware product for the Apple Macintosh which anti-aliases TrueType and Type 1 fonts.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
The institute's Peripheral Systems Laboratory develops new software and hardware technology for advanced displays, printing devices, phototypesetters and information servers. They have several pages relating to smooth font technology.

TrueType and Anti-aliasing
An article posted on Laurence Penney's TrueType Typography Web site.

YOUniverse
Robert Maxwell Case's page describes technology that addresses some of the problems associated with rasterizing anti-aliased vector graphics.

R.D. Hersch, 'Font Rasterization, the State of Art', Visual and Technical Aspects of Type, ed. R.D. Hersch (Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 56-63

R.D. Hersch, J. Bur, C. Betrisey, A. Guertler, 'Perceptually-Tuned Generation of Grayscale Fonts', IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 15; 6 (November 1995), 78-89



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