2015-01-26 11:35 GMT+01:00 Henrik Johansen <[email protected]>:
> > > On 25 Jan 2015, at 9:38 , Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It looks like this gray-scale vs. colored subpixel antialiasing is an > issue on windows. > > I did the same test on linux (Ubuntu 14.04) (screenshot attached). > > But still, the font rendering with the freetype plugin (morphic way) > looks better than > > the athens one. > > > > any ideas/help? > > > > > > <world_menu_athens.png><world_menu_morphic.png> > > Looks like 2 major differences to me; > - No kerning (custom distance between character pairs, not defined solely > by glyph size, o - r pair is pretty obvious) > Not familiar with the athens path, in FreeTypeFonts this is handled > image-side. > In athens, there are "hints" you can set. (CairoFontOptions/hintMetricsOff/hintMetricsOn/hintStyleFull ....) I played a bit with different settings. Changing this settings change the output, but I can not get it to look like with the freetype plugin. I understand that this can not look equally, because the FreeTypePlugin and caire work differently, but the athens result looks bad compared with the other one. > - Pixel fitting. (The aliasing going on at the top of characters) Put > Hinting: None in FreeType advanced features, and you will probably see > something similar to the Athens rendering. > Yes, we can change the freetypeplugin setting and cairofontoption setting to make the output look equally - ugly :) > > Cheers, > Henry
