ebay Corporate Presentation Template

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7 Minutes with FontFocus A better font
rendering Technology for PDF
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Introduction

• First generation font rendering monochrome
• Second generation Windows 95 font smoothing
• same algorithms as monochrome add grayscale
• Third generation MacOS X, ClearType
• Next generation FontFocus

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Fidelity vs. Contrast

• Difficult tradeoff between fidelity and contrast
• MacOS chooses fidelity, but is blurry
• Windows chooses contrast, but is distorted
• FontFocus renders with fidelity and contrast

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How it works

• Lenses have a range of good focus

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How it works, 2

• Digital text rendering also has a range of good
  focus

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How it works, 3

• FontFocus nudges glyphs towards good focus regions

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Advantages for PDF

• Increase effective screen resolution 20
• Text is readable at small sizes
• Preserve original font design
• Preserve original formatting
• More robust than ClearType
• No color fringing
• Works in landscape and portrait

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Demos available

• See the presenter!
• http//artofcode.com/fontfocus/