Try doing a screen capture of a window with Gimp, then enlarge
it. I would imagine that the anti-aliasing artifacts would be
pretty obvious.
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 11:15:54 -0600
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Anti-aliasing Questions
>
>
> Just to see how well anti-aliasing works, I recently upgraded RH7 to
> the rawhide X-4.0.3 RPMS, including freetype, etc. This seemed to go
> well, with all the components in place. The X server reports freetype
> module loads, and intializes the RENDER extension. I edited XftConfig
> to reflect the path to my TrueType fonts. And of course restart X with
> each change. So I guess this should be working, right? I am not using
> KDE or gnome BTW, not sure if that is in any way important. Just plain
> vanilla WindowMaker.
>
> A couple things I am curious about. First, if there is any difference
> at all it is very subtle. So is there any way to know if anti-aliasing
> is really, really, really anti-aliasing anything? Or possibly I have
> missed something in the setup. I've tried a number of TT fonts, in
> both Netscape and Mozilla. Immediatly before the upgrade, I picked a
> few web pages and tried to scrutinize as well as I could, so I could
> do some kind of before and after comparison.
>
> I see the release notes mention something about x11perf doing some
> kind of performance test for anti-aliasing, but the man page I have
> has no mention of this. ???? Not sure this would answer my real
> question anyway: is anti-aliasing working or not?
>
> I have tried it with and without xfs. Does RH's xfs (rawhide) support
> anti-aliasing? If so, does the freetype module still need to loaded in
> XF86Config? I notice no difference with either approach BTW.
>
> Is there any kind of documentation on XftConfig? I find zilch on this
> file anywhere of any substance. This has some curious stuff in there.
> This from Keith Packard's example:
>
> match any family == "Andale Mono" edit family += "Monotype.com";
> match any family == "Monotype.com" edit family =+ "Andale Mono";
>
> What is that about? It looks circular ;) Also, some lines have a
> semi-colon at the end, and some don't. When is this required?
>
> Also, this file seems to handle 'aliasing' (not anti ;) of one font to
> another. Which would seem also to be the purpose of fonts.alias. Which
> one takes precedence when push comes to shove?
>
>
>
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