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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 21 Sep 1998.
Re: Seeking overstrike bitmap fonts to emulate Teletype

Re: Seeking overstrike bitmap fonts to emulate Teletype

Aandi Inston wrote:
> 
> jfo...@threedee.com wrote:
> >
> >Ideally, this would be an unusual sort of Type 3 font where each
> >characters was defined as a bitmap in shades of grey, and that
> >overstrike would be emulated by additive layering of the bitmaps,
> >as opposed to each bitmap replacing the previous character.
> 
> This is impossible with PostScript, where every mark made is "opaque"
> and cannot depend on what was there before.
You could design your tty font as a (fairly sophisticated) Type3 font
that
generates bitmaps on the fly and uses imagemask to paint them.

Helge


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From: Helge Blischke <H.B...@srz-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Seeking overstrike bitmap fonts to emulate Teletype
Date: 1998/09/21
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