Around 17 o'clock on Jun 2, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> You can use the DisplaySize option to tell the X server what size the > screen is. It will then tell any app that asks the horizontal and > vertical pixel pitches (dpi), but this confuses sufficiently many apps > that by default we don't set this from the DDC info. > The RENDER font system could probably cope, but most apps don't get > anything sensible out of the old font renderer. Xft assumes that pixels are square; users and applications generally expect the dpi to be equal along each axis, so Xft plays along. Fixing that would be pretty easy; I could add an 'aspect ratio' field to Xft that could be configured per display. Certainly the underlying rasterizers are more than willing to draw with non-square pixels. You can actually do something similar, but not quite the same by setting a matrix when rendering text. The problem with using a matrix is that the matrix is applied after the hints; that makes the characters always appear the same, independent of the matrix, but makes the transformed characters no longer aligned to pixel boundaries. Disabling hinting would at least make them appear no worse under transformation. I've tried this with Xft2 and (after fixing several bugs), it works just fine. I think I'll add an aspect ratio field to allow the right thing to happen. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
