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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [APP REQUEST] Smooth fonts (fwd)
From:       Jo Dillon <emily () thelonious ! new ! ox ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1999-06-08 15:10:01
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Lars Knoll (Lars.Knoll@mpi-hd.mpg.de) spake thusly:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Mosfet wrote:
> 
> > Yep, it's only in the devel tree currently. It works just like the
> > XDrawTextXXX functions so should be relatively easy to add to QPainter/QFont.
> 
> Does this mean, they add just another set of drawing functions (meaning,
> that old X programs won't benefit automatically from font smoothing)?
> I would have thought they'd just add a paramter to the config file telling
> the xserver if he should do antialiasing...

  Um. That could really bugger up programs that don't expect anti-aliasing
to happen - not to mention that you don't necessarily want /all/ your text
anti-aliased.

-- 
	Jo

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