- To: Sonam Chauhan <sonamc@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Antialiasing in X4.0.2
- From: Ian Tester <imroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun Feb 11 18:49:01 2001
- Cc: SLUG Mailing list <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
> I have no idea how to get this working (I've got X 4.0.2/KDE 2.0.1 but no AA)
> The following seems to suggest that , for KDE users, it may be as simple as a new
> version of QT:
> http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/981746971/981837995/981865603/index_html
>
> Is this accurate?
Mostly. See, the problem with getting anti-aliased text in X has been that
the X protocol only uses 1-bit bitmaps when dealing with text. So it
wasn't simply a matter of putting an anti-aliasing font rasterizer in the
X server.
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