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Anti-aliasing / font smoothing links

This page lists links and print references relating to smooth font technology. Font smoothing was originally one of several system enhancements included in the Plus! pack for Windows 95. It continues to be a valid option for rendering text, but now shares the spotlight with ClearType. To learn more about the current state of font rendering on Windows read this new article about Windows 7.

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Smooth Fonts in Microsoft Windows
Learn how font smoothing worked on early Windows operating systems.

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.

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

this page was last updated 25 June 2009.

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