Re: [Fenfire-dev] Font hinting

[Matti Katila]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> Matti Katila wrote:
> | On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> |>Ouch. Big ouch. Now I know why text in OpenGL still looks bad.
> Do you mean that I need to be more specific which text looks bad, or how
> it looks bad?

You need to say the configuration.

> As to how it looks bad, I think the easiest way to see is to look at the
> demo I linked to, and turn hinting on/off:

For small font sizes it looked more ugly. The question is what font size 
you use, what size the libvob implementation use? Do you know that you can 
use font size like 50 and render it to size 5? With the demo it looks much 
more bolder without this 'hint' and the change is not huge on the size of 30.

You can fix the thing probably by giving a HINT_BIT or something found 
from the FTT project's implementation to OpenGL text.


> As to which text looks bad, why, I know only one way to render text in
> Libvob/OpenGL: Create a TextVob and put it into a scene. That's the one
> that looks bad.

What's the style?


    -Matti