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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Anti-aliased fonts
From:       "Dirk A. Mueller" <dmuell () gmx ! net>
Date:       1999-08-04 21:45:17
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Richard Moore <rich@ipso-facto.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> Could we steal the code from this?

I don't think that they've rewritten X. Without doing that, you cannot
implement antialiased fonts, when you still want to handle them as
fonts and not as greyscaled bitmaps.

The limiting factor is the X protocol, X11R6 doesn't support it.


-- 
Dirk A. Mueller

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