CompuServe Messages

Ben, if you do ever support EPSF , or any form of scalable font/art, it may be nice to add an "anti-alias" button which, when activated, will cause IM to rasterize the file at 2x or 3x the resolution, then anti-alias it down to the resolution we're using. Photoshop has such an "anti-aliased" button on its text requester. Unrelated note: any chance of a Gaussian Blur function? I'm concerned that applying the Smear operator, say, 10 times is much slower than a single pass of a Gaussian Blur operator which would precalculate a convolution matrix based on a user-specified blur radius, and apply this matrix once to the selected area. (Of course, the matrix wouldn't be limited to 3 x 3; its size would depend on the radius) (And fractional radii would be allowed, since integer-only control is too coarse; but then, you already know this, having built a smear amount slider into the smear function) Blaq!