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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Anti-aliasing ugliness in Konqueror
From:       Paolo Ulivi <pulivi () libero ! it>
Date:       2002-11-29 9:59:39
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On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:54:39PM +0100, Martin Willers wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> --(Anti-aliased fonts)
> > > Looking at the rendering of a small test-page with two lines of text in
> > > Arial (screenshots attached below), it can be seen that with Konqueror,
> > > there is a sudden "jump" in thickness of the texts (whose sizes differ
> > > by only 1 pixel!). It looks much more natural in Mozilla, where the
> > > 18px-text is just a bit bigger, but not noticably thicker.
> > > [...]
> 
> > This issue seem to be explained, discussed and work-aorund on this page:
> > http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dchest/xfthack/
> 
> Yes, indeed. I've applied that patch, and now it looks much better. Thanks 
> for the link!
> However, patching the Xft-library isn't really user-friendly, and since 
> Mozilla manages to do well without that, it should be possible with 
> Konqueror, too?

For that I know, next version of Mozilla (1.2, 1.2beta already does,
people says me, but I didn' tried it) will use Xft, so...

Ciao,
Paolo

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