On Saturday 19 October 2002 09:47 am, Danny Tholen wrote: > 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). It's turned off by default in xp and 98. You can turn it on but it's buggy. > > >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.
I don't mind large and tiny sizes being antialiased. However, in 9.0 _everything_ is AA'd. Even the normal 12 point Helvetica or Arial that looks ok without any antialiasing. > 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. Yes, I did that, I just think it should at least be configurable automatically (drakfont, anyone?) -- -- Igor
