Re: [Devel] ClearType-like results

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

>>>>> "Yaroslav" == Yaroslav Rastrigin <address@hidden> writes:

Yaroslav> Well, I'm wondering how you've managed to achieve this
Yaroslav> results. I'm pretty sure xft has nothing to do with glyphs'
Yaroslav> rendering - I've compared outputs of WordPad(one string in
Yaroslav> different fonts and sizes) and the same string in ftview,
Yaroslav> with different rendering modes.

Xft's aa support -- including its sub-pixel engine -- predate
freetype's built-in support.  The algorithms are different.

xft2 has much nicer output than I get from, eg, ftview.

-JimC