I'm no computer expert, but I do know what antialiasing means and I can try
to extrapolate its meaning to fonts. Antialiasing is when a computer blurs
a line to make it smooth. Whenever a computer makes a line at an angle, it
is never smooth. You may notice this if you make a slanted line in MS Paint
or whatever and zoom in a lot. You will see that the line is jagged.
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Sort of like that (How about that ASCII Art?)
Antialiasing takes the like and blurs the edges together so that the line
looks smooth. Kind of like this:
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Now, with fonts, when you have a letter like 'W' or 'M', there are jagged
curves. Antialiasing will smooth out these curves and makes the lines seem
straight and a little blurry. Antialiasing is mostly used for very large
font sizes in which the jagged curves really become apparent.
As for Mandrake, I have enable antialiasing in KDE control center because
I've been told it will fix the font problem I've been having. However, so
far this is not the case and I cannot see any noticable difference.
Hope this helped.
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>Is there a gentle soul to explain what the fonts antialiasing
>is? What is the purpose of it? How can we see if this option
>works or not?
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>Thanks,
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> Marc
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