anti-aliased text

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

Hi,

someone was working on that, maybe the article on /. is therefore of  
some interests?

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/05/1425209&mode=thread

keithp sent in a bit more information about the Font stuff we  
mentioned yesterday. Besides a nice shot of twm & xterm, Keith sent  
us proof in the form of a screenshot with Konqueror, the KDE web  
browser. He also says "Most of this code is in XFree86 CVS today. The  
hacked Tk and Qt libraries will be available in source form soon.  
Expect the latter to change; they were pretty seriously whacked. All  
of the text is rendered with the fine FreeType 2 library using 256  
levels of translucency and composited to the screen using hardware  
acceleration at around 200000 glyphs/sec. If performance becomes an  
issue, I'm sure we can improve that. These images are regular  
anti-aliased images not optimized for any particular sub-pixel  
geometry. With a single X resource change, the text would be  
rasterized to improve quality for LCD screens as seen here." Now I'm  
just waiting for mozilla to support this.

cheers, Phil

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