On Friday 18 October 2002 21:35, Igor Izyumin wrote: > > I agree. Notice that Microsoft doesn't use AA on their OS - Which OS? IIRC on 98 they read the gasp table from the font to see at what sizes it should be AAd. Generally for the ms fonts this is below 8 and above 15 (I could be a few pixels off).
>that's because > it's easier to read good fonts without it! Yes, if you are talking about normal sizes fonts. As you said it is good for large fonts (although I would see 16 pix, but this may depend on your screen as well). Large fonts look a bit jagged. Even with the best hinting in the world, you still see the edges. This is when a few grey pixels come in handy, it smooths the edges. For very small fonts AA still can be an improvement, because a very small number of black pixels is to little for your mind to understand it is a glyph. Adding a few grey pixels can be a help that. But it really depends on the fonts, and they will look blurred, but at least you can read it. Xft can be configured to enable AA for certain font sizes, but for some reason this was never done in mdk. Look it up in the part I added to the fontdeuglification howto. Silly enough, konqueror started to ask Xft for fonts in pixelsize instead of size, so you need to add a pixelsize entry as well. Danny
