[cairo] Subpixel Positioning w/FreeType

Robert O'Callahan robert at ocallahan.org
Tue Oct 6 16:33:20 PDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Freddie Witherden <freddie at witherden.org>wrote:

> I believe that basic, 1/3 of a pixel, subpixel positing could be
> implemented in Cairo without a huge amount of work. It would of course
> only be applicable when subpixel rendering is enabled. Since Cairo and
> Pango both already use fractional co-ordinates this should not break
> backwards compatibility.
>
> Both Quartz (OS X) and ClearType (Windows) support this already.
>

You mean the Windows WPF ClearType rasterizer? AFAIK GDI Cleartype does not
support this.

Rob
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