the circle in clock(1) is quite strange looking, too. and i have had to resort to an antialiased (subpixel) to use a font of reasonable size (maybe 20 real pt.) on my miserable monitor.
is the problem that libdraw is too limited, or that current screens have pathetic resolution? where's my 6000x6000 20" display? (that's only 300dpi - erik On Thu Jun 8 07:00:28 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > as noted before, page already handles ps/pdf. > > this is true. however i wouldn't mind seeing some way > of doing nice looking drawing under plan 9 (not that i'm implying that > display pdf is suitably lightweight!). the draw ops implemented > by /dev/draw are not really good for anything except crude looking > diagrams - jaggies galore, and not enough positioning accuracy. > by way of illustration, observe how the implementation of line() > needs to use sub-pixel accuracy in order to get reasonable looking arrows. > > i reckon you could strip out ellipse, line and polygon from devdraw > and almost nothing would notice. but replacing them is quite a bit of work...
