Re: Seeking overstrike bitmap fonts to emulate Teletype
From Aandi Inston <qui...@dial.pipex.com>
· alt.ascii-art
· 19 Sep 1998 00:00 · View full thread
· report
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. ---------------------------------------- Aandi Inston qui...@dial.pipex.com Visit http://www.quite.com/ for info on PostScript, PSAlter, psalters, tea, and small furry animals. And stuff.
Original message headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f62f2,47e8d8a068349d1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf62f2,public X-Google-Thread: fbb79,47e8d8a068349d1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb79,public X-Google-Thread: fd705,47e8d8a068349d1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd705,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,47e8d8a068349d1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: qui...@dial.pipex.com (Aandi Inston) Subject: Re: Seeking overstrike bitmap fonts to emulate Teletype Date: 1998/09/19 Message-ID: <360...@news.dial.pipex.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 392836813 References: <6tttar$seg$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: UUNET UK server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNET UK) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript,alt.ascii-art
Related ASCII art in the Gallery
Explore these categories from our collection of 11,000+ artworks:
//O\\
|\/\/\/| | | | | | (o)(o) C _) | ,___| | / /____\
|HHHHH/"\"\HHHHHHH| |HH`\|_.-)'|/'dP,H| |Hb.`\\_/_//'.oddH| |HHHb|`.\/\,'|HHHH| |HHHHHb/\/\/|HHHHH| |"""""""""""""""""| | |"" /\ \ / |"" | | |__/--\ \/ __| |
_________
/___ ___\
//@@@\ /@@@\\
\\@@@/ \@@@//
\___ " ___/
| - |
\_/ jrjc ______
/|_||_\`.__
( _ _ _\
=`-(_)--(_)-'
hjw .="=. _/.-.-.\_ ( ( o o ) ) |/ " \| \'---'/jgs /`"""`\\
Make your own ASCII art
Turn images, text or 3D into ASCII, or draw your own – right in your browser.
About this message.
This message was posted publicly to the newsgroup
alt.ascii-art
in 1998 and is mirrored here unchanged as part of the Historic Archives – only email addresses are masked.
The artwork and text belong to their original authors: if you copy a piece, keep the artist's initials or signature intact and credit them where you can.
Are you the author? Contact us to get your posts attributed, connected to your artist profile, or removed.
Report this message
Help us keep the archive clean and accurate. Reports are reviewed by a person – nothing is changed automatically.