19 Jul
2004
19 Jul
'04
4:02 p.m.
Patrick Kaell wrote:
The only difference I see is that Windows doesn't
use antialiasing.
This is intentional. Anti Aliasing uses grey pixels to make letters less
sharp (Kantenglättung). You can still configure Linux so that it doesn't
use anti aliasing (like Windows) and other stone age operating systems.
OK, I asked OOo to stop anti-aliasing. It did, and now the font is
actually less "fuzzy", but still not as good as under XP. Are you sure
Windows does no AA?
Anyway, Anti Aliasing is a recent feature in Linux.
Two years ago fonts
were as pixelized as in Windows ;-) But it seems that you do like
pixelized fonts ;-)
I have no problem being different ;-)
More seriously, one could either say that I don't like AA, or that the
AA I've come across is not really good. I've read about having to
recompile FreeType with an option to have a better quality AA; did
anyone do this? If so, is it really better?
-pu