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

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Alex Larsson wrote:

> It looks like the gdkxft font is hinted, but the Nautilus one is rendered 
> completely unhinted. You can tell that especially by looking at the i's 
> and the l's. In the Xft rendering these are completely non-aa, since the 
> hinting made them the grid-aligned. The nautilus one is instead blurry on 
> the sides, because the letters are really slightly wider than 1 pixel.

This is in fact the case. From xftglyphs.c:

  error = FT_Load_Glyph (font->face, glyphindex, 0/*|FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING */);

while rsvg-ft.c does:

  error = FT_Load_Glyph (face, glyph_ix, FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING | FT_LOAD_NO_BITMAP);

/ Alex