2015-01-12 19:19 GMT+01:00 stepharo <steph...@free.fr>: > Igor once explained to me that FreeType has the possibility to degrade > fonts when the family does not provide it. > Cairo does not have this possibility. > Esteban I'm sure that the same code is used. FreeType is much more > advanced than Cairo when it is about fonts. >
There is a setting for the freetype plugin: Monitor type LCD/CRT. If I change this to CRT, the freetypelugin font rendering looks more like the cairo on, no colored antialiasing. (freetype plugin ones still look a little bit better, a bit more "bold"). > > Stef > > Le 11/1/15 22:43, Nicolai Hess a écrit : > > Anyone knows, why the text rendering with athens (cairo) looks slightly >> different than the freetypeplugin one? >> >> attached is a screenshot, left side athen right side (morphic) >> freetypeplugin. >> >> It "looks" like the cairo freetype fontrendering uses >> CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_GRAY, no colored subpixel antialiasing. >> But the font options do define antialiase subpixel and a subpixel >> ordering RGB. >> >> This is on windows 7 with the latest vm, does it look different on other >> Systems? >> >> >> nicolai >> >> >> >
