[cairo] Turning off antialiasing

[Bill Spitzak]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 09:38 am, Jon Smirl wrote:

> I've heard rumors that the next generation of video card (or maybe
> two) will be able to scale and hint on the graphics card. Load your
> TrueType glyphs on the card and they will be scaled/hinted on the fly.

Rendering the glpyhs at 128x128 and storing it 1 bit per pixel on the card, 
and using that to draw all sizes up to perhaps 64x64, and using normal 
path-filling for any larger sizes, would probably use far less memory 
than the current scheme of storing 8 bit versions of the glyphs at many 
different sizes.

The trick is that the scaling hardware must be fast enough, but I suspect on 
modern cards this is no problem. A screen full of text would contain on the 
order of tens of thousands of characters, and we are talking about graphics 
hardware that can now draw a million texture-mapped triangles in one screen 
retrace.