[openbeos] Re: Link .. Fonts ... freetype ..
- From: "Steffen Friedle" <bernie.beos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 11:33:50 GMT
>>My BePDF (I think v0.93) uses also freetype (2 and 3) and that´s
pretty
>>cool for styles with more than 20pt ... (on R5 Dev Edition BeOS
Online
>>) under 20pt it´s getting reallly bad compared to Acrobat or Word
...
>
>What is freetype 3? Current versions are 2.0.9 and 2.1.
I haven´t managed already to get into freetype ..
All I saw was the Type 3 option in the preference menu ...
>
>Have you enabled the FreeType autohinter and disabled subpixel precise
>positioning in BePDF? This should produce much sharper glyphs.
>
yep, but it doesn´t get sharp ...
If there are too less pixels antialiasing isn´t really userful ...
>
>>If you change the colors of the fonts background from grey or white
to
>>other colors the rendering with Antialiasing also gets worse ...
>
>Should not be if the application that draws the string sets up the
>graphics state correctly. (low color to the background color or
>if the background is filled abitrary to B_TRANSPARENT_COLOR).
>
>- Michael
>
>
>
And that´s another main problem.
Most programmers don´t even mention that..
So I think with small sizes there should be Antialiasing turned off ..
Please compare it ..
In Photoshop .. you´ll see ..
Greets
bernie,
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