Re: [Devel] ClearType-like results

[Yaroslav Rastrigin]

Hi !
> Cf xft at:
>
>     http://fontconfig.org
>
> For at least some (well instructed ttf) fonts, I see exactly what you
> describe:  the pixels that would be black w/o aa remain so and a few
> more pixels are shaded to blend the results.  On this notebook's 133
> dpi panel, the result is obscenely great, especially on the italic
> glyphs.  The curves look as good as typeset at 2560+ dpi.
>
> I've inlined an example from zilla w/ xft below, showing both roman
> and italic.  (NB that it is not a full width crop, so the three lines
> of text in the image do not run together....)
>
> -JimC
Well, I'm wondering how you've managed to achieve this results. I'm pretty 
sure xft has nothing to do with glyphs' rendering - I've compared outputs of  
WordPad(one string in different fonts and sizes) and the same string in 
ftview, with different rendering modes. I could provide results, if someone 
is interested.

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