[cairo] smooth text

[Mohith Manoj]

Hey Jens,
I'm not an expert in the subject, but I'm quite sure you are looking for
antialiasing in cairo. Looks like its your lucky day. Cairo supports
antialiasing in two modes; GRAY and SUBPIXEL. I am using cairomm and in it
the function call looks something like this. void
Cairo::Context::set_antialias(Antialias<http://www.cairographics.org/documentation/cairomm/reference/namespaceCairo.html#2cb381e7f63bef767a7d697fc5af13b4>
 *antialias* )where Antialias is an enum with values
*ANTIALIAS_DEFAULT* *ANTIALIAS_NONE* *ANTIALIAS_GRAY* *ANTIALIAS_SUBPIXEL*

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> Hi Jens,
>
> You really need to tell us more about how you are using cairo.  Which
> platform?  Which version?  Which surface backend?  Which font backend?
>  Which
> font?  Screenshot of the output?  Sample code?
>
> behdad
>
> Jens Saathoff wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm very new to cairo and there are a lot of questions. I'm creating
> > some graphics with cairo and also place text on my graphics and there's
> > the problem. The text looks ugly cause it's very edgy...it should look
> > smoother (anti-alising). Is this possible with cairo?
> >
> > thank you very much
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