Re: [Freetype] Best approach to get anti-aliased font bitmaps?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I suppose they would look great but I have never heard *any* 
> discussions on "hand tuned anti-aliased bitmaps". 
> 
> To my knowledge no one has ever created them. They just do not
> exist.

Well, Mark Leisher's xmbdfed supports them.  Mark, can you give more
details?

> What little I have heard on the subject of "much better fonts" 
> is that in the future we will have higher resolution displays 
> (~200DPI) and then anti-aliasing will not be an issue.

IMHO it will take around 5 years until we have, say, more than 50% of
screens with such a high dpi value.


    Werner