Font AA in win32

Tor Lillqvist <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:49:48 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.gimp.windows.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"alex_shaduri <[email protected]>" <[email protected]> writes:
 > Just curious: Is there any way to make fonts look antialiased in win32?

Tell Windows to do it in the Desktop's Display
Properties:Effects:Smooth edges of screen fonts. (That is on Win2k, on
Win9x or XP the location might be a tad different.) You don't have to
do anything in your code.

 > I heard there is some other font renderer based on freetype2. Can
 > it display AA fonts in windows? If yes, how do I enable it and how
 > do I switch the font renderers?

GTK+ always uses the pangowin32 backend.

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