Xft Hack Improves Antialiased Font Rendering 360
Eugenia writes: "Font antialiasing first made its way to XFree through Qt/KDE only a year ago and GTK+/Gnome followed some time after. Even with the latest version of Freetype 2.08, which reportedly brings better quality, the result is still not up to par with the rendering quality found on some commercial OSes. David Chester has hacked through the Xft library and he achieved an incredibly good quality on antialias rendering under XFree86. With this hack, at last, XFree can deliver similar aesthetic results to Mac OS X's or Windows' rendering engines. Check the two brand-new screenshots ('before' and 'after') at his web page and notice the difference with your own eyes."
Thats cool; (Score:0, Funny)
and by cool, I mean totally smooth.
(groan)
Breaks out in song... (Score:3, Funny)
I can see all webpages, in my way...
Re:Steve Gibson debunks M$'s "innovation" (Score:2, Funny)
Font antialiasing is a crutch (Score:4, Funny)
Re:that's something completely different (Score:2, Funny)
You don't always have to throw hardware at a problem to solve it, that's MCSE thinking!
Bill for Font Renerding Improvements (Score:5, Funny)
Breakdown:
Changing 2 lines of code = $1
Knowing which 2 lines =$9,999
Now THAT's intuitive!!! (Score:1, Funny)
wow. not only is it buried in some friggin configuration file (how many does X have? is this the one where i get to set the monitor scan frequency? that one's my favorite!), but the option doesn't look anything like what we're trying to use it for. yay!
incredible.
-c
Don't you mean... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Changing two lines of code is "hacking through" (Score:3, Funny)
I predict the next great hack frontpage story to be "Linux in one really huge line of Perl".
J