On 31 Oct 2002 11:31:59 -0600 Jason L Tibbitts III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> "KL" == Kevin Lisciotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > KL> I'm experiencing the same problems. I've looked at Bugzilla #76057 > KL> which supposedly addresses this issue, but haven't tried any of > KL> them as of yet. > > 76057 doesn't seem to apply to what I'm seeing; the complaint there > seems to be that non-AA fonts are ugly. I'm not having a problem with > the quality of the outline generation; that looks fine (and even > better once the bytecode interpreter is turned on and the webfonts are > in place). > > Instead I'm having problems with freetype not snapping vertical > elements to the pixel grid. For example, a lowercase ell (which is > just a vertical line of pixels in the font I'm using) is not snapped > to either a one or two pixel width; instead it has a non-integer width > which is approximated by drawing one black line and one grey line next > to it. A sample is at > http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/rh8-poor-fonts.gif Absolutely, I hate antialiased fonts, they give me a headache and eyestrain to the max. One of the main reasons I can surf and work in linux 10 times longer than I ever could in windows. I only recently realized it was the antialiasing of fonts that was causing it. Though using and enabling tt fonts has beautified my system immensly :) -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall
