It seems that with your setup the FreeType fonts are rendered without subpixel AA.
I use the Mac VM, I think with the extra BitBlt plugin, and they look better. Adrian On Dec 6, 2009, at 21:10 , Levente Uzonyi wrote: > Idézet (Adrian Lienhard <[email protected]>): > >> On Dec 6, 2009, at 19:43 , Levente Uzonyi wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Adrian Lienhard wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks, Marcus! >>>> >>>> One step closer to 1.0. >>>> >>>> Damien, I suggest not to select FreeType font in the Pharo image >>>> anymore but keep the Bitmap DejaVu font that comes with the core >>>> image >>>> now. The bitmap font is not that perfect, but apparently the speed >>> >>> Not that perfect? What's the problem with it? >> >> E.g., colon and dot are so small that I sometimes think they are >> missing (do you see the dot on the first line in the attached >> png?). Character spacing is sometimes strange. Its not bad at all, >> but not perfect either. >> > > I guess it depends on your monitor's pixel size, I see the dot > clearly. > >>> FreeType's anti-aliasing is crappy compared to BitmapDejaVu. >> >> What is crappy? >> > > Crappy = low quality. > See the attached image. > > > Levente > >> Adrian >> >> > > <fonts.png>_______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
