From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: usenet@fischman.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Xft support (freetype, anti-aliasing) in X11 emacs
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 01:44:43 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210060007.g9607IdC027101@stubby.bodenonline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021004.133233.42788207.wl@gnu.org> "from Werner LEMBERG at Oct 4, 2002 01:32:33 pm"
>
> > If you say so, I haven't looked at Xft2. I don't even like
> > antialiased fonts, they make my eyes hurt :-)
>
> Please explain. Recent FreeType versions (used in Xft2) support
> various hinting modes.
>
It is not specific to Xft2, it is anti-aliased fonts in general. For
example, I can not work with MaxOSX 10.2 more than an hour at a time.
I tried to change the settings for antialias, but it had no effect.
I am seriously considering reverting to 10.1.
I have the same problem with KDE anti aliasing, so I turn it off.
To me anti aliased fonts don't look smoother, they just look out of focus.
My stupid eyes tries to focus, but to no avail, since the "out of focus"
isn't really real. I get a headache instead.
It isn't monitors either, I tried 5 different monitors. CRT is a bit
better than TFT here. So my interest in Xft and anti aliased text is
pretty low.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-05 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-02 22:27 Xft support (freetype, anti-aliasing) in X11 emacs Ami Fischman
2002-10-03 9:10 ` Colin Walters
2002-10-04 15:46 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-03 14:53 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-03 18:11 ` Jan D.
2002-10-03 19:28 ` Ami Fischman
2002-10-03 20:03 ` Jan D.
2002-10-04 11:32 ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-10-05 23:44 ` Jan D. [this message]
2002-10-06 1:08 ` Miles Bader
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