[haiku] Re: BCI and sharp fonts

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  • Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:29:48 +0000

> > > > If you mean the "Appearance" preferences application, and its
> > > > "Antialiasing" tab, then you should be very well be able to 
> > > > notice
> > > > a
> > > > change in the appearance of the fonts when you play with it.
> > > The change I meant was between the different versions of builds,
> > > i.e. without BCI and with BCI.
> > 
> > You cannot enable LCD subpixel drawing with R1/alpha1, in later
> > versions you can.
> 
> I don't think this has been enabled. IIRC, only the TrueType byte 
> code 
> hinter has been enabled.
> 
> But from the screenshots it looks like Jürgen wants to disable 
> anti-aliasing altogether. Individual applications can do this in 
> Haiku (see 
That's exactly the point!

> the FontDemo), but it's currently not possible as a global setting.
Well, actually FontDemo seems not to work this way for me (Nightly-
Revision 37085).
Tahoma is still much too blurry with Anti-aliasing checkbox unset.

Bye,
  Juergen


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