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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Re:My AA issue by Alsee · 2002-03-05 19:14 · Score: 1, Offtopic

(I was moded -1 Troll last time I said this, so lets see what happens now)

Obviously this time you get modded -1 Redundant :)

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Re:Linuxslash by red5 · 2002-03-05 19:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

monolinux that sound to much like an STD to me.

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Re:Ok, this is excellent by greenfly · 2002-03-05 19:44 · Score: 2, Offtopic

What you are looking for is called Enlightenment :)

It's basically the only window manager I've seen that does fine-grained window memory right.