FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: GSoC: Sub-pixel antialiasing for font rendering

["Ari Haviv" <arielbhaviv@xxxxxxxxx>]

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http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/
Texts Rasterization Exposures
An attempt to improve text rasterization algorithms using only
publicly available information

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Andrej Spielmann
<andrej.spielmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>  On 3.4.2008, at 17:59, Stephan Assmus wrote:
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> > Stephan Assmus wrote:
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> > > I know that there is some filtering involved to avoid strong
> > > color fringing. You need to define where this happens. I assume Freetype
> > > already does it, but for the normal vector pipelines, you would need to
> > > do it yourself "somewhere".
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> > ... just thought of that and the cleanest solution would be to write your
> > own scanline storage implementation, which does the filtering. You
> probably
> > have to read all the other stuff including the code first befor you know
> > what I mean by this, unless you have experience with AGG already.
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> > Best regards,
> > -Stephan
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>  No I don't have any experience with AGG :-) I was intending to read the
> article you suggested and all the code. You will probably hear from me
> tomorrow.
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