Font rasterization is the process of converting text from a vector description (as found in scalable fonts such as TrueType fonts) to a raster or bitmap...
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Rasterisation (redirect from Rasterization)
techniques such as ray tracing, rasterization is extremely fast and therefore used in most realtime 3D engines. However, rasterization is simply the process of...
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FreeType (section Compact Font Format engine donation)
bitmaps, and which provides support for other font-related operations. The FreeType font rasterization engine is free and open-source software with the...
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issues are however mostly solved by antialiasing (as described in font rasterization) and the high display resolutions that are commonly in use today....
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PostScript fonts are font files encoded in outline font specifications developed by Adobe Systems for professional digital typesetting. This system uses...
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FreeType and Patents Tutorial on the DejaVu font wiki Archived 2007-09-03 at the Wayback Machine Texts Rasterization Exposures Article from the Anti-Grain Geometry...
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Typeface (redirect from Non-proportional font)
A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display. Most typefaces include...
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Rendering (computer graphics) (section Rasterization)
films. Both rasterization and ray tracing can be sped up ("accelerated") by specially designed microprocessors called GPUs. Rasterization algorithms are...
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bitmaps led to images of letters that appeared distorted through random rasterization. In order to prevent these effects, he invented additional information...
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(font hinting) to maximize legibility, Apple's implementation prioritizes the shape of the glyphs as set out by their designer. Font rasterization –...
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wide variety of fonts. This support was one of the features that initially distinguished it from other systems. The primary system font in OS X El Capitan...
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TrueType (redirect from TrueType font)
TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the...
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OpenType (redirect from OpenType font)
OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. Derived from TrueType, it retains TrueType's basic structure but adds many intricate data structures...
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and rasterization. The technology uses interpolation and extrapolation mechanisms that have been supported in font-development tools and used by font designers...
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session could seem to "freeze up" while the X server took a moment to rasterize a font. This problem with the X server (which remains single-threaded in all...
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ClearType (redirect from Cleartype font)
screen, while ClearType Full HD Display indicates a 1920×1080 screen. Font rasterization FreeType CoolType – a similar technology by Adobe Quartz (graphics...
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scalable text without font rasterization, the ability to download the needed font from the cloud on demand without requiring the font installation step,...
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typography). Typeface designers also have new tools, such as font hinting and font rasterization, that enable them to create new typefaces quickly and easily...
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Bézier curve (section Fonts)
(and lines) on a pixellated surface using a process known as font rasterization. Typically font engines and vector graphics engines render Bézier curves by...
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allow the FreeType font rasterizer to be used with the X Rendering Extension; it is generally employed to use FreeType's anti-aliased fonts with the X Window...
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False radiosity Fast approximate anti-aliasing Fillrate Flood fill Font rasterization Fractal Fractal landscape Fragment (computer graphics) Frame rate...
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third-party add-ons). Font smoothing or font rasterization is arguably an accessibility feature affecting how the fonts are rendered and font readability. Also...
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transparency (for example spatial anti-aliasing, especially during font rasterization, and transparency effects in window managers, such as transparent...
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designed for that purpose in 1982. Another Bitstream product is Font Fusion, a font rasterizing engine developed jointly with Type Solutions, Inc., which was...
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minimal bitrate and number of colors; they usually lack anti-aliased font rasterization. Also, changing such subtitles is hard, but special OCR software,...
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interactive techniques. pp. 6–11. Alpha to coverage Anisotropic filtering Font rasterization Sampling (signal processing) Temporal anti-aliasing Leler, William...
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by MVTec Helicon Focus ImageMagick Musemage Pathfinder, GPU-based font rasterizer PhotoScan seedimg Autodesk Maya Blender GPU rendering with NVIDIA CUDA...
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PostScript (section Font handling)
than their attached printers, it no longer made sense to offload the rasterization work onto the resource-constrained printer. By 2001, few low-end printer...
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of the Internet, Illustrator was enhanced to support Web publishing, rasterization previewing, PDF, and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). Adobe was an early...
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Bitstream's font rasterizer, called Font Fusion. Enhanced Font Support - Font Fusion provides support for Web Open Font Format (WOFF), OpenType fonts, Multiple...
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