[haiku-development] Re: Subpixel anti-aliased font rendering

  • From: Matt <laceysnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:51:57 +1000

2008/7/11 Matt <laceysnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 2008/7/11 Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Matt wrote:
>>> Congratualtions on 'finishing' (I use the term in a software development
>>> way, i.e. we can tweak forever) the project - sounds like you've come up
>>> with a good solution.
>>
>> Ah, but Andrej will take this even further! Right now, the method is
>> implemented for non-transformed text only which uses the bitmap cache. But
>> we want to take this further yet and offer it for general vector shape
>> rendering. I hope to use it even for icon rendering.
>>
>
> Just in case anyone took what I said the wrong way and took offence, I
> was half expecting him to do more :) I simply meant that if there's no
> one around to keep a coder in check they'll never finish anything
> because there's always something else you can find to change or
> rewrite or improve :)
>
> Matt
>

Oh, and now I can see the images I've gotta say the new rendering
style looks much nicer on this screen - I actually prefer the second
shot with it just full on, though I suspect that's because I'm also a
fan of Safari in Windows!

Matt

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