BITMAP FONT

Specialty Definition: BITMAP FONT

Domain	Definition
Computing	Bitmap font A font where each character is stored as an array of pixels (a bitmap). Such fonts are not easily scalable, in contrast to vectored fonts (like those used in PostScript). [Examples?] (1995-02-16). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Bitmap font

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A bitmap font is one that stores each glyph as an array of pixels (that is, a bitmap).

Scaling

Bitmap fonts look best at their native pixel size. Many text rendering systems perform nearest-neighbor resampling, introducing ugly jagged edges. A good system will perform anti-aliasing on bitmap fonts whose size does not match the size that the application requests. This works well for making the font smaller but not as well for increasing the size, as it tends to blur the edges.

A "trace" program can follow the outline of a high-resolution bitmap font and create an initial outline that a font designer uses to create an outline font useful in systems such as PostScript or TrueType. Outline fonts scale easily without jagged edges or blurriness.

Article based on bitmap font at FOLDOC.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bitmap font."

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Crosswords: BITMAP FONT

Specialty definitions using "BITMAP FONT": jaggies ♦ outline font ♦ Uniface. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BITMAP FONT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
bitmap font	21
bitmap font free	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BITMAP FONT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-f-i-m-n-o-p-t-t"
	-3 letters: antipot, maintop, ptomain, tampion, timpano.
	-4 letters: bonita, fantom, intomb, manito, mattin, obtain, optima, pitman, potman, tampon, titman.
	-5 letters: ambit, amino, amnio, baton, biont, biota, faint, inapt, matin, motif, paint, panto, patin, patio, piano, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, point, taint, tanto, titan, toman.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.