o make the text less legible. However, when drawing text in very large point sizes, draw masks are probably fine.</P>
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Since several of the masks are associated with a fill percentage, some programmers may confuse masks with gray-scale fills. Grays should be implemented with colors, by drawing in a color with equal red, green, and blue values.
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When you are building a document image, do not use draw masks just to achieve a lighter color. That is, if you are 