[cairo] Subpixel Positioning w/FreeType

James Cloos cloos at jhcloos.com
Wed Oct 7 11:34:49 PDT 2009


>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Arnold <tellrob at gmail.com> writes:

Rob> I'm pretty sure it's new in WPF/DirectWrite. But I'm not sure it
Rob> uses 1/3 for sub pixel positioning. Before picking a fraction, it
Rob> would be good to find out what the other rasterizers have chosen
Rob> for their pixel subdivision.

The note about Cleartype recently posted, IIRC, to the opentype list
says that it uses 4 bits of fraction.

-JimC
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