On Wed, 17 May 2000, Andrew Macks wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2000, Matt wrote:
[snip]
> > What's the story with type in Linux anyway ?
>
> Linux lacks anti-aliasing, which it needs.
No, X is the problem. It only handles fonts as 1-bit images, so
no anti-aliasing. I think there's been talk of perhaps making an X
extension that could handle grayscale images. That would allow the type-1
and truetype font renderers to return anti-aliased fonts. Until then,
various application- and library-level solutions have been made in The
Gimp and I think one of the Gnome libs. I don't know about KDE stuff.
Then there was the suggestion the other week of overhauling the X
rendering model. X12? That'd probably include anti-aliased fonts. But
that'd take a while to eventuate.
bye
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