[ft-devel] display broken
Folks an hour ago my computer screen backlight has died. :-( It will take a few days until a replacement screen arrives, delaying most of my computer activities. Fortunately, I've found a company which still offers a 1680x1050 display for my old Dell. It's depressing to see that there are no high-res notebook screens available currently. My Dell is five years old and has a higher DPI than even more expensive models from today. Well, I've read that that Apple is going to sell iBooks with `retina displays' soon, with really impressive DPI values, and I suspect that other companies will provide similar things, which is good! Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] display broken
an hour ago my computer screen backlight has died. :-( It will take a few days until a replacement screen arrives, delaying most of my computer activities. ** Very bad news... Blacklight desktop or laptop? A laptop backlight. Well, I've read that that Apple is going to sell iBooks with `retina displays' soon, with really impressive DPI values, and I suspect that other companies will provide similar things, which is good! ** € ? :-) Exactly. However, five years ago the additional price for my laptop's increased resolution was about 150USD, so I assume that the screen resolution won't increase the price dramatically. Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] display broken
Hi Werner an hour ago my computer screen backlight has died. :-( It will take a few days until a replacement screen arrives, delaying most of my computer activities. ** Very bad news... Blacklight desktop or laptop? Well, I've read that that Apple is going to sell iBooks with `retina displays' soon, with really impressive DPI values, and I suspect that other companies will provide similar things, which is good! ** € ? :-) Hirwen ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] display broken
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: Well, I've read that that Apple is going to sell iBooks with `retina displays' soon, with really impressive DPI values, and I suspect that other companies will provide similar things, which is good! Let me steer this discussion away from commerce and back to freetype. With DPI = 326 on IPhone 4S and DPI = 264 on IPad, would you agree that hinting and subpixel rendering becomes less critical, whereas the speed of the rasterizer needs to be revisited? ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] display broken
With DPI = 326 on IPhone 4S and DPI = 264 on IPad, would you agree that hinting and subpixel rendering becomes less critical, whereas the speed of the rasterizer needs to be revisited? This sounds sensible. Speed is always good, so if you want to work on that, please do so! Whether this is really critical remains an open topic, I dare to say. Without actually using such a screen, all what we can do is theoretizising. Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] display broken
Alexei Podtelezhnikov apodt...@gmail.com writes: Well, I've read that that Apple is going to sell iBooks with `retina displays' soon, with really impressive DPI values, and I suspect that other companies will provide similar things, which is good! Let me steer this discussion away from commerce and back to freetype. With DPI = 326 on IPhone 4S and DPI = 264 on IPad, would you agree that hinting and subpixel rendering becomes less critical, whereas the speed of the rasterizer needs to be revisited? I'm not sure what less critical means... Freetype obviously still has to do good hinting and subpixel rendering, even on a high res display. [My cellphone has about the same display resolution as an iphone 4 (about 310 DPI), and although this makes large characters look really smooth, they also took advantage of the resolution by using _really freaking small_ characters in some situations, and really freaking small CJK characters still need decent hinting or whatever even at these resolutions...] -Miles -- We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
