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This is one of those books you either love or loathe.
It's basically a retelling of every Von Däniken or Baigent & Lee book out there, which is fine if that's your bag, but the wordt thing about the book is that (a) the science is all wrong and (b) the characters are totally non-believable cardboard cut-out action figures.
As a reviewer at Amazon.co.uk put it: "I suppose if you regard Bruce Willis movies as high-concept cinema this is probably going to suit you fine. If you have a working brain, don't waste your money."
Whoa! Replied too fast for my own good.
Of bloody course screen shots won't rerender.
How stupid can I get? To my defense: what the orginal poster was saying has nothing to do with the issue at hand, which is on-screen font anti-aliasing.
Yes, I am right. I spend my days looking at a screen, so I do care what the letters on that screen look like.
Oh well, never mind, maybe one of those open-source chappies will go take a look at Microsoft's white papers and bother to implement font smoothing the way it should be done.
Actually an Arabic letter benefits from good screen fonts as much as the next glyph. When you do your homework and make actual screen fonts, like, oh, say, Microsoft does, you don't end up with a badly anti-aliased page but with a page that can be read without getting a splitting headache. I put a simple side-to side comparison of Arabic in Linux and Windows on-line for anyone who cares to look at the actual facts before putting Microsoft down. The sample on the far right is the same text as the two previous ones, but this time in larger size where Microsoft's font smoothing does kick in.
Read 'em and weep, Linux people. Read 'em and weep.
Font anti-aliasing is not just averaging the rendered font pixels with the background. When you do that, vertical and horizontal strokes will look blurry, and details like serifs and whatnot disappear.
A good font smoother -- like the one in Microsoft OSes ever since Win95 Plus Pack (over five years ago, folks!) -- only anti-aliases problem areas in diagonals and curves. Furthermore, it should only be applied to text above a certain type size.
Colour-corrected, patched together, text bleed from other pages removed -- in short: much improved version here.
Rah rah Microsoft! Good one! Keep 'em coming!
"Here is a few of my favorite programs that didn't come with my distribution", the man says. And the first two links don't work with the third pointing to a moved page.
Tchk.
You have got to be kidding. If your browser doesn't read ColdFusion pages, there's probably something wrong with the ColdFusion code or the server, not the client. I'm looking at my own ColdFusion pages with Opera right now.
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FYI, all the shortcuts you knew still exist. Used to insert image with alt, i, p, f? That still works.
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This is one of those books you either love or loathe.
It's basically a retelling of every Von Däniken or Baigent & Lee book out there, which is fine if that's your bag, but the wordt thing about the book is that (a) the science is all wrong and (b) the characters are totally non-believable cardboard cut-out action figures.
As a reviewer at Amazon.co.uk put it: "I suppose if you regard Bruce Willis movies as high-concept cinema this is probably going to suit you fine. If you have a working brain, don't waste your money."
How stupid can I get? To my defense: what the orginal poster was saying has nothing to do with the issue at hand, which is on-screen font anti-aliasing.
My bad, sorry, etc.
Yes, I am right. I spend my days looking at a screen, so I do care what the letters on that screen look like. Oh well, never mind, maybe one of those open-source chappies will go take a look at Microsoft's white papers and bother to implement font smoothing the way it should be done.
Read 'em and weep, Linux people. Read 'em and weep.
A good font smoother -- like the one in Microsoft OSes ever since Win95 Plus Pack (over five years ago, folks!) -- only anti-aliases problem areas in diagonals and curves. Furthermore, it should only be applied to text above a certain type size.
For more details, see Microsoft Typgraphy. For an example of how not to do things, see TN 1149: Smoothing Fonts at Apple.
Michel Vuijlsteke
Albania for King Zog Committee
Microsoft Linux by 2002!
Michel Vuijlsteke
Albania for King Zog Committee
Microsoft Linux by 2002!
"Here is a few of my favorite programs that didn't come with my distribution", the man says. And the first two links don't work with the third pointing to a moved page. Tchk.
You have got to be kidding. If your browser doesn't read ColdFusion pages, there's probably something wrong with the ColdFusion code or the server, not the client. I'm looking at my own ColdFusion pages with Opera right now.