Re: [Nautilus-list] Xft Anti-aliasing, Libart antialiasing?

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 14:27, Moses Lei wrote:
> 
> My attempt at matching font face and font sizes can be seen here:
> http://mlei.mtmis.com/nautilus.jpg
> 
> The font was Arial, at size 11 according to gfontsel and at 14 according
> to nautilus. My X dpi is 100x100. (There seems to be some disagreement
> there as to relative font sizes...)
> 
> In the nautilus tree view, the GTK system font is used, with Xft
> antialiasing. (this is with the gdkxft hack.) On the right is the Nautilus
> main window with smooth graphics enabled. Look at the word "AGSatellite"
> since it appears on both the left on the right.
> 
> This is, of course, subjective, but it is obvious to me that 1) the output
> is not identical and 2) the output on the right is smoother and more
> readable. Look especially at the curve of the capital G.
> 
> One might argue that the small difference in font size accounts for this
> difference, but as far as I can tell, at all small font sizes (<=14 at
> 100x100 dpi) there is an appreciable difference of rendering quality
> between Nautilus and Xft.

It almost looks as though the Nautilus output was rendered at
a larger font size and then shrunk.