2015-01-12 19:19 GMT+01:00 stepharo <stepharo@free.fr>:

Igor once explained to me that FreeType has the possibility to degrade fonts when the family does not provide it.
Cairo does not have this possibility.
Esteban I'm sure that the same code is used. FreeType is much more advanced than Cairo when it is about fonts.

There is a setting for the freetype plugin: Monitor type LCD/CRT.
If I change this to CRT, the freetypelugin font rendering looks more like the cairo on, no colored antialiasing.

(freetype plugin ones still look a little bit better, a bit more "bold").

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Stef

Le 11/1/15 22:43, Nicolai Hess a ��crit :

Anyone knows, why the text rendering with athens (cairo) looks slightly
different than the freetypeplugin one?

attached is a screenshot, left side athen right side (morphic) freetypeplugin.

It "looks" like the cairo freetype fontrendering uses
CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_GRAY, no colored subpixel antialiasing.
But the font options do define antialiase subpixel and a subpixel ordering RGB.

This is on windows 7 with the latest vm, does it look different on other
Systems?

nicolai