Re: [ft] Tweaking/Improving FreeType Antialiasing

[Tor Andersson]

On 8/27/06, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd be very happy with just a custom browser build - say something
> KHTML based maybe - that has great font rendering and kerning. It
> would make Linux so much nicer to use. OpenOffice, Gnome and a PDF
> viewer would be next up on my list for improved font handling. I
> don't think it's going to be perfect system-wide, however, if I'm
> understanding the limitations properly - but maybe there's at least
> room for improvement?

<off topic, shameless plug>

You may want to look into MuPDF. It does not do subpixel color
filtering, but has unhinted, fractionally positioned text rendering,
in a very light package.

http://ccxvii.net/apparition/

Only windows binaries for now (but portable source). Make sure
to get the stable version if you check out the source.

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