On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 22:36:36 -0400 Ambrose Li <acli@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:19:30PM +0300, Ciprian Popovici > wrote: > > > How can I make fonts be rendered like, say, GTK1 does, that > > is without any anti-aliasing whatsoever but still keeping > > the main font "lines" clear. Simply turning AA off seems > > to produce "mushy" characters, definitely not what I was > > expecting. > > > > Please tell me if I'm not making sense, I will put some > > pictures up somewhere. :) > > Certainly you are making sense, but I don't think you will > really want to do that. Also, you probably should have better > luck posting to the freetype or perhaps gtk list. > > If you really succeed to turn AA off completely, freetype2 > will use the X driver. It will, however, produce "deformed" > characters at small sizes. Also if you run the application > through a slow network connection, the application may be even > slower than when AA is turned on. I see what you mean. I've tried it with antialias=false, hinting=true and autohint=false, it's the combination that produces the most bearable rendering without AA for small font dimensions. So what you're saying, basically, is that all apps that use freetype2+fontconfig+xft will not be able to render fonts that look good without AA at small sizes? If so, it's quite the opposite of what I was wishing for back when AA was still in diapers: no AA for small font sizes and AA for big font sizes. Is this even a fontconfig matter or should be addressed in freetype? -- Ciprian Popovici
