Bug 71623 – use antialiasing only for big fonts

Bug 71623 - use antialiasing only for big fonts

Summary:	use antialiasing only for big fonts

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Public Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	fontconfig (Show other bugs)
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Version:	limbo
Hardware:	i586 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Owen Taylor
QA Contact:	Jay Turner
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2002-08-15 16:35 EDT by matteo porta
Modified:	2015-01-07 18:59 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2002-08-15 20:15:49 EDT
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Description matteo porta 2002-08-15 16:35:54 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
antialiasing makes little font unreadable. you should add some option to enable 
antialiasing only for bigger fonts (this is how works windows, and it is the 
optimal choice, imho)


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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2002-08-16 11:35:58 EDT

On the other hand, Mac OS X always antialiases. 
It, to some extent is a matter of preference. 

But in our case, rendering nice looking antialiased
fonts with free software is a whole lot easier than
rendering nice looking non-antialiased fonts, so
there is a strong inclination to antialiasing.

If you try turning off antialiasing in the GNOME
font properties dialog, I don't think you'll be
happy with the result, even at small point sizes.

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