Hi, Thanks for the valuable insights.
Wishes, Navneet > On 12-Apr-2017, at 12:42 AM, Quincey Morris > <quinceymor...@rivergatesoftware.com> wrote: > > On Apr 11, 2017, at 08:32 , Navneet Kumar <navnee...@me.com > <mailto:navnee...@me.com>> wrote: >> >>> 4. Anti-aliasing. There is some behind the scenes magic when drawing text, >>> that determines whether it knows the background color and therefore whether >>> it anti-aliases using the background color. >>> >> Tried anti-aliasing, explicitly turning it ON and OFF. No change. > > Well, I nearly had the right answer here. I tried a simple test project, > using black text, and saw the effect you describe. Zooming into the display > (Control+scroll) revealed the difference pretty clearly, since I could see > the colors of the anti-aliased pixels. In the NSTextField text, LCD font > smoothing is being used; in the drawn text, it is not. There is behind the > scenes magic when drawing text, that determines whether it knows that LCD > smoothing can be applied. > > When I turned the LCD smoothing option off in System Preferences -> General, > the text rendered the same in both cases. > > Note that your choice of text color made the problem appear worse, because > sub pixels were apparently being turned on both for smoothing and for > coloring, which made the text look bolder than if it had been black. > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
