[haiku-development] Re: Text rendering

* DarkWyrm (darkwyrm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> I'm sure that stippi could shed more light on this than I can, but 
> knowing what I know about the FT2 API and taking a quick look over the 
> AGG text rendering services used by the app_server, I *think* that 
> what's actually happening is AGG is handling all of the antialiasing. I 
> could be wrong on that one, but AFAICT AGG actually gets the curves 
> from FT2 and renders them along with everything else in the rendering 
> pipeline in one pass.

That seems to be true for text that has some transformation applied to
it. But for straight text, it seems as though it gets a bitmap back, not
the outlines.

-claudio

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