Andrew wrote:
>  --- Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> > 
> > In the end we have to place glyphs in the screen at
> > integral values. The
> > only way to get close on screen to what will be
> > printed is the adjust EACH 
> > glyph to be within 0.5 pixels of where it would be
> > on a high resolution 
> > device. This is what Joaquin is arguing for and what
> > I agree with.
> 
> The problem I was thinking of is with Arabic where all
> letters are supposed to join up exactly is we can
> never let a visible one pixel gap creep in here.
> Also, if two antialiased glyphs overlap by one pixel
> we need to ensure that the antialising is done after
> the overlapping or we will end up with artifacts.
> Perhaps these might be too tiny to notice - I couldn't
> say in advance.

I don't think that Arabic will be a problem.  Usually glyphs get close
when you place them using linearly scaled distances, so you will not get
any gap.  For the antialiasing, I don't think that it will be a problem
either, but we'll see :)

Cheers,


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