Quality enhancements of digital outline fonts

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 713-725

  Shamir, Ariel ^a,b   Rappoport, Ari ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Heshev Development SR   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER SETS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

DIGITAL FONT; GLYPH ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031270321     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(97)00049-6     Document Type: Article

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