Re: antialiased fonts

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 25.05.2005 um 17:49 schrieb Stefan Monnier:

>>> Has anyone ever seen antialiased font with Emacs?
>> Me. Many times.
>> First I use TrueType fonts. They get rendered and anti-aliased by the
>> X server.
>
> No, the X server does not magically anti-alias TrueType fonts.
> If you've seen Emacs anti-aliased on X11, I can only think of the
> following reason:
> - you ran Emacs inside an anti-aliased text-terminal-emulator.
> - you tried one of the patches that add support for xft, none of which 
> is
>   in any kind of stable state, AFAIK (tho I haven't tried to xft 
> branch in
>   the CVS repository recently).

OK, I confess: with X11 I do *not* see antialiased fonts! My xterm is 
GTK aware (whenever I changed my number of fonts it took minutes until 
it showed up!). Using the font or on that font based fontset I actually 
can see differences between both. In xterm I can see that some pixels 
are not completely dark, in Emacs this never happens, no matter how 
steep or how round a line is, all pixels are really black.

So there is really only one stable release of GNU Emacs that can 
anti-alias fonts: Carbon Emacs 22.0.50 from CVS for Mac OS X.

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