> On 13 Jan 2015, at 13:48, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Le 12/1/15 19:19, stepharo a écrit : >> Igor once explained to me that FreeType has the possibility to degrade fonts >> when the family does not provide it. >> Cairo does not have this possibility. >> Esteban I'm sure that the same code is used. FreeType is much more advanced >> than Cairo when it is about fonts. > Esteban are you sure that the same code is used? Because I would have thought > the opposite.
AFAIK, Cairo uses freetype library for rendering fonts. That’s why Igor spent some time making sure that freetype library is not loaded twice (one for the plugin and one other for athens). So, it should be the same external library, but probably not the same Pharo code. Esteban > >> >> Stef >> >> Le 11/1/15 22:43, Nicolai Hess a écrit : >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> >> > >
