Xft Hack Improves Antialiased Font Rendering

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 5, 2002 @06:38PM from the two-lines-of-code dept.

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."

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Font antialiasing is a crutch by Proc6 · 2002-03-05 20:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Why can't people see the real answer is just to develop ultra high resolution displays finer than the resolution of the human eye, then we can just make razor sharp fonts like a high quality laser printer. :) Okay, so we'd need a 4gig GeForce20 Ultra, but it would look 3R33T.

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Bill for Font Renerding Improvements by squaretorus · 2002-03-06 00:06 · Score: 5, Funny

$10,000

Breakdown:
Changing 2 lines of code = $1
Knowing which 2 lines =$9,999