Lazy Fox wrote:
> There were two font lib in FLTK, "x" and "xft", "xft" is the default one in
> 1.3.0.
> what's the difference of them?
In simplest terms, when I see XFT in this context I think smooth
antialiased fonts,
and when I see "X", I think of ye olde bitmapped fonts.
The XFT option to FLTK definitely makes large fonts look much nicer,
and zoom more smoothly when you change the font size. You can make
letters
the size of your desktop, and they'll look nice, whereas bitmapped fonts
jump as you try different point sizes, and sometimes look really blocky
at large sizes.
But it's a double edged sword; the xft fonts get fuzzy at smaller
sizes..
depends on the font and the size.
xft is definitely the way of the future for fltk, which is why the
default for 1.3.x is xft being enabled. Only very old versions of linux
will have trouble with an XFT enabled fltk app.
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