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Re: Ehhh...
by Erik Hill on Thursday 15/Mar/2001, @15:05
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Well, it works for me, I played with the XftConfig-or-something-like-that file, and imported all my windows and other fonts I found laying around on the internet. Also I have sub-pixel rendering turned on. In fact everything is clear, only slight fuzziness on the vertical anti-aliasing effects (none at all horizontally, as expected with sub-pixel rendering) and the total effect is nothing short of incredible. With better fonts, control over fixed fonts (at least enough control to get Konsole working correctly) and sub-pixel rendering on, there is no reason not to anti-alias every single charecter and many reasons to do so! Anyway, I'm not going back. Certainly I'm suffering no headaches. I only wonder how I remained so pain-free before I switched!
If you need more specifics about what changes I made, ask and I'll do the research and backtrack.
The free-type library could stand to do a better job with sub-pixel positioning and kerning in general, however. This is a very slight complaint and you have to know what you are looking for to even notice it. And of course it could easily be the font and not the renderer. Also I get the impression (though it may be wrong) that free-type does not hint using sub-pixel boundaries, only full pixel boundaries, but I may very well be wrong there, haven't really put the charecters "under the microscope" and checked to see. It seems anyway that it makes occasional hinter mistakes (diagonal lines are softer than they should be), which could be anything of course, the hinter, the font, or even some kind of patent problem preventing them from implementing it correctly (I seem to remember reading about that on their web site). BeOS's renderer does a slightly better job on pure anti-aliased fonts, but it can't sub-pixel render at all, so in fact freetype beats it cleanly there.
My point is only that despite the incredible improvements made, it is possible to get even more out of the hardware I have, which, in this case, is a 1024x768 TFT.
Erik |
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