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Re: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 08:23:03 +0200 (CEST)

> I suppose they would look great but I have never heard *any* 
> discussions on "hand tuned anti-aliased bitmaps". 
> 
> To my knowledge no one has ever created them. They just do not
> exist.

Well, Mark Leisher's xmbdfed supports them.  Mark, can you give more
details?

> What little I have heard on the subject of "much better fonts" 
> is that in the future we will have higher resolution displays 
> (~200DPI) and then anti-aliasing will not be an issue.

IMHO it will take around 5 years until we have, say, more than 50% of
screens with such a high dpi value.


    Werner



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