"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.
--
Brian Stell
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