Xft Hack Improves Antialiased Font Rendering

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."

Comments

Re: Shitty browser

[batand]

Well well,
And I guess You are using Galeon, Mozilla or Konqueror. Wow, you are so cool. Unfortunately they don't display some IE-only sites pretty well. So you also have to ditch YOUR shitty browser.

Go troll somewhere else

Re:Linux/X86 configuration standard needed bad

[moonbender]

The point remains, in XP you don't have to RTFM or STFW to figure out how to activate sub-pixel rendering. That's because selecting it from a drop-down-menu is comparatively intuitive, all other restrictions of Windows notwithstanding. :)