Re: Less anti-aliasing

Vadim Plessky <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:21:06 +0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.render
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Saturday 22 June 2002 11:37 pm, Elias Penttilä wrote:
|  Hi there,
|  don't know if this is the right list, but:
|  Looking at some magnified screenshots from anti-aliased GNOME/KDE/other
|  desktops and comparing it with the "smoothing" (not ClearType) from
|  Windows-products I see that XFree86 does anti-aliasing to straight lines
|  aswell. My eyes can't stand those blurred fonts and that's why I'm asking
| if it's possible to only smooth out the curves in XFree86.

Can you explain what do you refer to?
AFAIK KDE doesn't have such behavior. 
GNOME1 doesn't have anti-aliasing at all. 
Nautilus anti-aliases fonts without applying hints, which results in *blurred 
fonts* in Nautilus (same way as MacOS X).

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