To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Scaling Images
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From: Michael Bukin <M DOT A DOT Bukin AT inp DOT nsk DOT su>
Date: 26 Mar 1999 08:11:38 +0600
In-Reply-To: jesseREMOVETHISdorlandREMOVETHIS@hotmailREMOVETHIS.comREMOVETHIS's message of "Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:10:17 GMT"
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jesseREMOVETHISdorlandREMOVETHIS AT hotmailREMOVETHIS DOT comREMOVETHIS (Jesse Dorland) writes:

> On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:45:44 -0800, "Terragon" <webXmaster AT terragon DOT com>
> wrote:
> 
> >I'm using allegro to scale some truecolor images by reducing their size.
> >The blitstretch function works fine, but I would like to be able to do a
> >more sophisticated scaling where the bitmaps are... well, I don't know the
> >right word.  Antialiased? Feathered?  Smoother?
> 
> AAStr allows you to do this.  It's quite slow, so I wouldn't even try to
> use it for scaling graphics in real time.  It works nicely in situations
> where you just need to scale a particular bitmap once, though.
> 
> The author's web site is here:
> 	http://www.inp.nsk.su/~bukinm/allegro/
> but the link to the AAStr library doesn't seem to work anymore (I get a
> "Forbidden" error message).  Hmm....

Thanks for reporting this, I will remove the link.

Anti-aliased stretching and rotation is available from here:

http://www.jado.org/users/bukinm/


If there are any problems you can contact me by e-mail.

-- 
Michael Bukin