[Freetype] Re: Arial ttf - bad rendering of some glyphs

[Vadim Plessky]

On Thursday 12 July 2001 19:10, Pedriana, Paul wrote:
|      >>Windows disables font smoothing <14pt, so it's
|      >>hard to compare FreeType with AA and Windows's
|      >>TT rasterizer generating Black&White pixmaps.
|
|   I don't think it is doing this exactly so on my machine. Here is a
| picture of Windows' Wordpad on my Windows 2000 machine with the letter 'z'
| drawn in Times Roman normal, bold, italic, and bold-italic at successive
| integral point sizes from 5-26.
|
|
|   The 5 and 6 point sizes are being anti-aliased, 7-13 are not, and 14+
| are. When antialiasing is turned off, none of the letters are anti-aliased.

yes, that's was the point highlighted by David Turner.

I *enabled* Anti-Aliasing for point sizes 7-13 on my Linux (KDE/QT) box.
Screenshot I posted was made in KDE, using KWord word processor from KOffice 
suite.
Some *blurring* (or *dirty*) inside several letters was caused by this.
//  so, I was *guilty* in producing this effect
*Disabling* AA for point sizes 7-13  (like it was before) , of course, fixed 
this blurring.

It's not applicable to compare Windows (either 98 or 2000) and KDE / XFree86 
at all, as I don't know any way to enable AA for 7pt-13pt in Windows.

Rendering output *without AA* is appx. the same on Windows and KDE.

But, I think there is a way to fix these letters with AA enabled, than there 
will be no reason to disable AA at all :-))

|
|   Also, I don't see any missing diagonal in these Zs, but maybe I don't
|   have it set up properly to show this error.



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