[ft] Seeking answers on subpixel rendering

2007-03-23 Thread chojin
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

Re: [ft] Seeking answers on subpixel rendering

2007-03-23 Thread 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

Re: [ft] Seeking answers on subpixel rendering

2007-03-23 Thread 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