[haiku-development] Re: Text rendering
- From: Claudio Leite <haiku@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:47:36 -0400
* 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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