Re: Patch for feature request

Stefan Ulrich <[email protected]> Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:24:53 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.xdvi.devel
Message-ID <1294525493.1826.85.camel@linux-a3f9>
Hi,

thanks a lot for the patch - yes, I seem to recall that problems with
colours were one of the reasons that delayed finishing that code ...
also, I didn't have an LCD screen back then ;-) 
However it seems there's something buggy with the with computation - on
my system, anti-aliased text appears 3 times as wide:


Best regards,
Stefan

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 12:22 +0000, Matthew Wakeling wrote:
> Attached is a patch for feature request 701101 for xdvik. This implements 
> subpixel rendering. Only a small amount of code needed to be changed, as 
> much of the required stuff was already there - just not quite finished.
> 
> There may be an issue with coloured text, which I may have time to look at 
> later. Fixing it would involve putting the color_filter_image() step 
> before the tinting step rather than after.
> 
> As it stands, B&W text looks really quite nice on my LCD screen with the 
> patched version.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matthew
> 
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