Re: font anti-aliasing or smoothing

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

john fremlin vii <vii@altern.org> writes:
> 	  1) Function to return pixmap at a given location in our window.
> 	  2) Function to draw pixmap back. 

You need a function to return font metrics, or you need X to do the
antialiasing itself using its own font metrics.
 
> I tried a version at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html which
> gives a 23 November 1999 timestamp. It does not refer to anti-aliasing
> at all (?).

Well, it tells you how to get fonts that aren't quite as jaggy as the
standard ones. :-)

Havoc