On 7/16/2025 1:14 AM, Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote:
Hi Jim,
On Tue, 2025-07-15 at 10:06 -0300, Jim wrote:
Might I ask you
(a) To confirm that your PDF reader does, indeed, do SPR?
(I.e., not just everything else on your system.)
and
Ah, good point, I should have checked first. Using the following test
file:
\loadtypescriptfile[plex]
\setupbodyfont[plex-thin, sans]
\setupinterlinespace[1sp]
\define[1]\makeline{%
\setupbodyfont[#1pt]%
\dorecurse{
\numexpression(\textwidth / \widthofstring{l}) - 1\relax
}{l\hfill}%
\unskip%
\par%
}
\define\makelines{%
\processcommalist[2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 24, 36, 72]\makeline%
}
\startTEXpage[width=6in]
\makelines
\startframedtext[
offset=0pt,
width=broad,
background=color,
backgroundcolor=black,
color=white,
]
\makelines
\stopframedtext
\stopTEXpage
Chromium and Firefox (pdf.js) use subpixel rendering, while Evince,
Okular, MuPDF, and xpdf just use greyscale antialiasing. I usually use
Firefox to view PDFs, and everything else on my system uses subpixel
rendering, so I just assumed that the rest of the PDF viewers did as
well.
all side effects of these pattents involved ... pathetic large company
policies ... esp given how trhey benefit from open source (and we're not
even talking stuff that can't be invented multiple times at the same
place independently)
Hans
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