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Subject: Re: [APP REQUEST] Smooth fonts (fwd)
From: Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date: 1999-06-09 4:00:07
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No alpha channels :(
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, Steffen Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Jo Dillon wrote:
>
> > Martin Konold (konold@alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de) spake thusly:
> > > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Jo Dillon wrote:
> > >
> > > > Nope, it will support anti-aliasing through an X extension. How it
> > > > interacts with font servers I don't know - possibly it requests a
> > > > double-size font and uses that to get the grey levels - but fonts
> > > > loaded directly by the X server can be anti-aliased.
> > >
> > > Where can I read about this extension? Any URL?
> >
> > Not that I know of - the XFree 3.9 development source (available only
> > to XFree members) is the only place. Wait for the development snapshots
> > to come out, the API probably isn't stable yet anyway ;)
>
> Even if the API still changes it would be nice to know exactly what
> features are planned for 4.0. I'm looking very much forward to AA fonts!
>
> Any ideas on how the extension will work? Will we get alpha-channels also?
>
> greetings,
> --------------
> Steffen Hansen |
> email: stefh@mip.sdu.dk, stefh@imada.sdu.dk,|
> hansen@kde.org | ABC...VWXKZ :)
> URL: http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~stefh |
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Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@kde.org
mosfet@jorsm.com
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