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From: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante)
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Subject: color fonts
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Date: 30 Nov 88 18:44:46 GMT
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In article <844@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>In article <3399@geaclib.UUCP> rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis) writes:
>>All true, but this does not bely the fact that a Macintosh II can, indeed
>>support colour fonts.  I have yet to see anyone use such, but the support
>>is all there and well-documented in Inside Macintosh volume 5.  Has anyone
>>else out there seen a colour Mac II font?  If not, where are they?
...
>There was even one called "Stars and Stripes" or something that was
>red, white, and blue (i.e., the top half was red, the middle white,
>and the bottom blue).  Very neat.
>Anit-aliasing is easily done this way, and I would assume that that
>was part of the reason for putting in color support in the first place.
>The anti-aliased fonts I saw on the Mac II were stunning.
>
>I don't know how to get a hold of these fonts, but I could find out
>if others are interested (it's been a while since I saw them).


I am very interested in finding out why there so little information about
anti-aliased fonts.  It seems that the mac is the perfect for bringing this
useful technology to the public.  Are there ways to make anti-aliased fonts and
use them in regulur applications for the mac?  I think that the recent
OS releases havent helped the user in commonplace activities , 
we need enhancements such as: better clipboard, better font support, 
inter-app communication, etc.).




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Mark Interrante   		  Software Engineering Research Center
mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu		  CIS Department, University of Florida 32611
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