Re: PATCH cairo-www: Simpler explanation for how to get sharp, single-pixel-wide lines
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.cairo |
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| Organization | Geek Central |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:09:34 -0700, Bill Spitzak wrote: > No, turning off antialiasing is not the solution. This can be made > obvious by setting the line width to slightly larger than 1, you will > then get alternating 1 and 2 pixel thick lines. Nope. Enclosed are magnified views showing line thicknesses set to 1.0 and 1.1. The grid represents integer device coordinates, the spots the pixel positions. As you can see, the line widths are perfectly uniform in both cases. > Also diagonal lines and curves look horrible. Which is not what the FAQ was asking, and was addressed in my answer anyway. -- cairo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo
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