Around 22 o'clock on Jun 22, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Elias_Penttil=E4?= wrote:

> Looking at some magnified screenshots from anti-aliased GNOME/KDE/other
> desktops and comparing it with the "smoothing" (not ClearType) from
> Windows-products I see that XFree86 does anti-aliasing to straight lines
> aswell.

That happens when font "hinting" is disabled.  Hinting adjusts the 
appearance of the glyphs so that the vertical and horizontal elements are 
aligned on pixel boundaries to make them appear sharp.  Unhinted output 
has the advantage of more accurately representing the shape of the glyphs, 
but at low resolutions I find it hard to read as well.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


_______________________________________________
Render mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render

Reply via email to