Freddie Witherden wrote: > I -- personally -- am not a fan of Microsoft's implementation of > subpixel rendering either. I feel that it applies far too heavy > hinting to glyphs in order to force them into the pixel grid.
actually, that's a separate issue. the one in that wiki page is taking advantage of the fact that a single rgb "pixel" is really three pixels, one of each color, and, if you now how those are arranged (and apparently they are mostly arranged the same on LCD monitors), you can turn on more or less of a color to get a third of the pixel. > studies have shown that people like what they're used to. yup. Though I think that MPL is not rendering big blocks of text, the there is less "used to" in this case. > Safari 3 was released for Windows Apple ported their own font > rendering engine -- which uses almost no hinting -- provoking many > complains from Windows users, who had gotten used to their well hinted > glyphs.) And this is the trick that MS uses to shift glyphs right or left to line vertical lines up with the pixel grid. This is nice commentary on a bunch of this: http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/ I wonder how the MS tricks do for math -- I'd expect kind of a mess. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
