[Vm-dev] Fwd: [Pharo-project] New Pharo based on core 10309 with antialiased fonts

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 20.05.2009, at 14:19, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Adrian Lienhard wrote:
>> I've sent Andrew a mail to his hotmail.com account this morning but  
>> haven't received a reply so far.
>
> Thanks. BTW, the reason why I'm asking is that I've been using the  
> Truetype stuff in the past and I don't recall the need for bitblt  
> mods. Is there a possibility that once upon a time there was a need  
> for this and now there no longer is? The date on the changeset is  
> 2004...

IIRC this is for sub-pixel font rendering support and was never  
officially integrated. With current bitblt you do nit git sub-pixel AA.

- Bert -