From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Sudhir Shenoy <sshenoy@gol.com>
Cc: "13424-done@debbugs.gnu.org" <13424-done@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#13424: Mac OSX - font rendering in Emacs 24.3 looks like bitmaps
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:41:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7043146F-3572-4853-A50A-0C4CDC5B926F@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C9BF8C6F-91E7-4C27-A9D5-DE7D451C7D9A@gol.com>
Hello.
The emacs-24 branch (and soon the trunk) has smoothing on again.
Jan D.
14 jan 2013 kl. 00:37 skrev Sudhir Shenoy <sshenoy@gol.com>:
> On Jan 13, 2013, at 10:36 PM, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
>
>>
>> I assume you mean something else than "24.3 and 24.3"? There is no "trunk of 24.3", it is just the trunk or the emacs-24 branch or a released version. Not sure what versions you mean here.
>
> Sorry for my poor reporting - it was trunk vs. 24.2
>
>>
>> Anyway, both your versions are antialiased as is plainly seen if you zoom in on a character so you see the individual pixels. I suspect one of them is not LCD-smoothed though. See bug 11484 (http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11484).
>>
>> If another workaround for that bug can be found, smoothing will be turned back on.
>>
>> Closing, as this is not a bug.
>
>
> You're correct - I should have said LCD smoothing and not anti-aliasing. I read the description of 11484 and now understand why smoothing was turned off. However, now Emacs is quite unpleasant to the eyes and quite unusable on a Macbook IMHO. Perhaps the cure is worse than the disease?
>
> Thanks
> Sudhir
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-13 2:08 bug#13424: Mac OSX - font rendering in Emacs 24.3 looks like bitmaps Sudhir Shenoy
2013-01-13 13:36 ` Jan Djärv
2013-01-13 23:37 ` Sudhir Shenoy
2013-01-14 9:41 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
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