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September 24th, 2007
10:30 pm - Texts Rasterization Exposures
via LWN:
The Anti-Grain Geometry project has an article on font rendering, covering Linux, Mac, and Windows techniques. It looks at various ways to make text look better on a monitor, including sub-pixel rendering, hinting, and gamma correction. "The Windows way of text rendering is bad, the Linux way is much worse. In all Linux systems I've seen they use FreeType by David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg. It is a great library, really, but the way of using it is not so good."
http://antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html
This looks like an excellent doc for anyone who's interested in fonts and font rendering systems.
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| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | September 28th, 2007 11:03 am (UTC) |
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| | Interesting Read | (Link) |
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I've tried playing back and forth the Xorg + Fonts wiki article to improve the look, with varying results (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts).
This really is an interesting approach worth a try. Any advance in that direction, as the author of the refered article states, would surely boost the Linux Desktop experience. It's definitely worth further investigation.
Thanks for the link.
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/13361999/367921) | | From: | ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) psykil |
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| Date: | September 28th, 2007 11:10 pm (UTC) |
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| | Re: Interesting Read | (Link) |
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i took a look at that wiki page about a month ago. while i don't want to downplay anyone's contributions, there is a lot of bad and just plain wrong information there. there are also a lot of good points but it's sometimes hard to sort it out. |
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