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Re: Yet another anti-aliased KDE screenshot



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On Tuesday 30 October 2001 05:48, Daniel Robert Franklin wrote:
> So, in short, if you actually want to see the font, as opposed to a bunch
> of artifacts, you need to use anti-aliasing. Don't mistake smoothness for
> blurring.

That was some nice explanation. Anti-aliasing is something you ought to 
integrate in any display system, or you will have jagged edges. Thus, some of 
the hype associated with Mac OS X's Carbon.

I'd always thought anti-aliasing was simply resampling, tho'. Which means 
there is actually some blending but not blurring, most algorithms are careful 
enough not to degrade image quality. On the other hand, the end result varies 
since there are different algorithms.

I find the KDE AA satisfactory on XFree86, tho. The fonts look good on a 
hi-res display. I think that was one advantage Windoze had, only until 
recently :)

If you're viewing that screenshot with konqueror you will see a fairly 
accurate representation of what I'm using but if you use an image viewer that 
resamples that further for you, it will indeed look blurry.

My feeling is that especially web pages look a lot more like they were 
intended to.

So, could you tell me about your font settings?

Thanks,

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Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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