Re: Polite newbie: font anti-aliasing or smoothing

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On 7 Dec 1999, John Fremlin wrote:
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to have the GDK do font anti-aliasing or
> just plain smudging?
> 
> As far as I can see this would at minimum only involve changing gdk_draw_string,
> gdk_draw_text, and gdk_draw_text_wc to use a smootho font drawing
> procedure instead of XDrawString. Is this correct? Has it been done
> before, and if not why not?
> 

The X architecture makes this a huge pain.

You might be interested in the "X font deuglification HOWTO" which a
search engine should turn up. It will tell you how to get your X server to
provide antialiased fonts.

Havoc