Re: Text rendering/editing on OSX & iOS
Re: Text rendering/editing on OSX & iOS
- Subject: Re: Text rendering/editing on OSX & iOS
- From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:18:24 +0000
On 21 Dec 2010, at 14:29, Ricky Sharp wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by "it's the same". Do you mean pixel for pixel accuracy between Mac OS X and iOS? I don't thing that may be possible (at least at a high level) as there may be different rendering techniques.
Indeed, my understanding at present (from poking about rather than any official word from Apple) is that on Mac OS X the font rendering is being done by ATS, whereas on iOS it's currently using FreeType. In both cases, the Quartz API over the top is the same, but it's using a different underlying rendering engine.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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