On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:12:37PM -0500, Aaron J Reichow wrote:
> I've not been using the fonts on such a large screen, but I've noticed a
> bluriness in the TrueType package as well.
> 
> It looks as if it was anti-aliased a bit much, or that the algorithm for
> AA has a blurrier tendency.  

The latter.  It is using a general AA algorithm that doesn't utilize
hints built into the fonts.

> Anyone know how to change this?  Something a
> little sharper, although still nice looking?

Jim Gettys suggested that writing a plugin to interface to Xft2 would
be the way to go (http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html).  Their
licence page appears to be missing, but I found a copy at:
http://www.reportmagic.org/docs/FTL.txt

Squeak fonts would look as nice as any others out there!

Joshua

> 
> Regards,
> Aaron
> 
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> 
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 
> > Guten Abend.
> >
> > Has anyone got a decent font configuration for using Squeak on a
> > 1600x1200 TFT display? I tried the Microsoft standard fonts using the
> > TrueType package but they look blurry. I'm looking for something that
> > looks as good as Dolphin on my Win XP installation.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nils
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> >