Problems with NiceFonts and composite window managers
Re: [squeak-dev] Re: [ANN][Squeak-dev Images] September 2008 versions
Juan Vuletich
juan at jvuletich.org
Fri Sep 12 05:39:57 UTC 2008
Damien Cassou wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
>
>> Another workaround is to do
>> Prederences setPreferencesFrom: #((subPixelRenderFonts false))
>> This will turn off subpixel rendering, using only gray levels for AA. This
>> uses BitBlt rule 34, that does not have this problem.
>>
>
> Thanks for the report. Do you recommend me to do that on all dev
> images? What are the cons?
>
>
The cons is that it won't use subpixel rendering anymore. Only gray
level. To my eyes, subpixel rendering is mandatory. Without it, fonts
look horrible to me. But it is a personal preference. I'd leave it on.
Others might disagree.
BTW, where I wrote "Prederences" it should read "Preferences"!
Cheers,
Juan Vuletich
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