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Re: Font Smoothing vs. Antialiasing

Three options of rendering text:
1) Non-antialiased text (these are the the 1 bit hinted bitmaps). In this case antialiasing is off
2) Antialiased text (this is the same as "Standard" font smoothing in the Font Smoothing setting in Appearance pane of System Preferences.
3) LCD based antialiasing, which uses the r,g,b subpixels to render text. In this case Font Smoothing and antialiasing are both true. The quality of the font smoothing is determined by the Font Smoothing setting in Appearance pane of System Preferences.

haroon

On Feb 3, 2005, at 3:22 PM, R. Scott Thompson wrote:

What is the difference betweeen Font Smoothing and Antialiasing?
Or perhaps a better question, what exactly is Font Smoothing?
Can the font smoothing and antialiasing GState fields contain opposing values (font smoothing without antialiasing, or vice-versa)?
Scott
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