XFT anti-aliased font ??? whazzat?

logicalfuzz · 09-24-2005, 09:38 AM

while going through the INSTALL file for fox tool-kit i can across this ..

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to enable XFT anti-aliased font support do ....

what exactly is XFT ? i saw a few screenshots for aliased and anti-aliased fonts, and anti-aliased ones seem to be the winner...

exvor · 09-24-2005, 10:05 AM

XFT is a screen specification

VGA/SVGA/XFT/etc. etc.

foo_bar_foo · 09-24-2005, 04:03 PM

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Originally posted by exvor
XFT is a screen specification

VGA/SVGA/XFT/etc. etc.

don't think so

XFT stands for X Free Type
it's just a library that provides an extension to the old 1987 X11 fonts system
without technical specifics it basically futzes around with the fonts edges so they don't look so horrible.
was done by XFree project and "borrowed" by other now suddenly more polically correct X implementations.

old unix/linux X was without a doubt some of the ugliest fonts you ever saw.

Komakino · 09-24-2005, 04:34 PM

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Originally posted by foo_bar_foo
don't think so

XFT stands for X Free Type
it's just a library that provides an extension to the old 1987 X11 fonts system
without technical specifics it basically futzes around with the fonts edges so they don't look so horrible.
was done by XFree project and "borrowed" by other now suddenly more polically correct X implementations.

old unix/linux X was without a doubt some of the ugliest fonts you ever saw.

Bingo. Aliasing is the effect you get when you draw a line on a screen that isn't either vertical or horizontal. It's the rough edges you get as you move from one column or row of pixels to the next. Anti-aliasing is a sort of blurring of the edges so they look nice and soft

exvor · 09-25-2005, 11:06 AM

LOL ohh yea your right

i must have been thinking of something else when I posted