Weird… Both FT plugin and Athens use same library (even same instance)… but could be something on how cairo threats them what makes a difference, I suppose.
Esteban > On 11 Jan 2015, at 18:43, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone knows, why the text rendering with athens (cairo) looks slightly > different than the freetypeplugin one? > > attached is a screenshot, left side athen right side (morphic) freetypeplugin. > > It "looks" like the cairo freetype fontrendering uses > CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_GRAY, no colored subpixel antialiasing. > But the font options do define antialiase subpixel and a subpixel ordering > RGB. > > This is on windows 7 with the latest vm, does it look different on other > Systems? > > > nicolai > > > <athens_subpixel.png>
