Re: [ft] Seeking answers on subpixel rendering

[Ismail Dönmez]

On Friday 23 March 2007 06:31:53 chojin wrote:
 I am a long time windows user who has, around once a year for the past 6 or
 so years, tried to make an effort to switch my business (graphic design and
 web development) over to linux and the one thing consistently holding me
 back is font rendering... freetype is the best attempt so far, but is SO
 far away from windows and osx.

Yes its far from perfect but not that bad either, read on 
http://www.mail-archive.com/freetype@nongnu.org/msg00972.html to fix color 
fringes.

/ismail

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Re: [ft] Seeking answers on subpixel rendering

[Werner LEMBERG]

 Does the bytecode interpreter have anything to do with this kind of
 antialiasing?

Yes.  The Windows system fonts have special instructions to provide
optimal results for subpixel rendering.  However, contrary to the the
ClearType extensions are completely undocumented.  [Well, almost, I've
sent some details to the freetype-devel list already -- but
unfortunately, those `details' raise more questions IMHO than
answers.]

 Could an autohinter produce the quality of antialiasing shown above?

Maybe.  David?


Werner


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