I like all the fonts to be anti-aliased, even small ones. just my $0.02 worth
Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederik Himpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cooker mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] anti-aliasing in OpenOffice.org > On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 17:10, Alastair Scott wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 14:16, Frederik Himpe wrote: > > > > > I have set my /etc/X11/XftConfig not to use anti-aliasing for font sizes > > > 12 and 10, which works ok in gnome, but OpenOffice.org seems to ignore > > > these settings. I have placed a screenshot on > > > http://users.telenet.be/fhimpe/anti-alias.png . You see that even fonts > > > with these sizes are anti-aliased. Does OpenOffice.org uses its own > > > settings somewhere, like Mozilla does, or is this a bug? > > > > It has its own settings, but there's something odd going on. Try Tools | > > Options, then OpenOffice.org | View in the window and then the 'Screen > > font antialiasing' checkbox and 'from ... pixels' spin box. > > Doh, should have missed this one! I have set it to 20 pixels, which > works great here. > > <snip> > > > OOo anti-aliasing from 11 points - user interface font anti-aliased, all > > four text samples anti-aliased [I'd expect the 10-point to not be > > anti-aliased]; > > <snip> > > > However, the anti-aliasing errors are worth looking at. (That said, the > > OOo dialog box says 'from ... pixels', not 'from ... points'; perhaps > > there is confusion of units there?) > > Probably, 12 points font is not necissarily 12 pixels high, it depends > of your resolution. > > Could OpenOffice.org be set by default to use anti-aliasing only for > 20px and higher? > > In fact I think similar constraints should be put in XftConfig, so it > does not anti-alias for example between 8 and 15 points. > > Frederik Himpe > -- > http://users.telenet.be/fhimpe/ >
