Re: How can we improve quality of text content rotated using CSS transform?

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:23 AM, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote:

> entation issue and should just be bugs filed against Firefox and Safari (or
> Webkit).
>
> AFAIK the underlying problem here, at least in Firefox, is that the Windows
> GDI Cleartype renderer rounds the X and Y coordinates of glyphs to integers
> before rendering. If there was an easy fix, I'd use it, but I don't think
> there is. Rendering the scene untransformed (or possibly with a scale that
> approximates the true scale) and then transforming the resulting image would
> help in some cases, but not others. New APIs in Windows 7 might help ... but
> not for many users in the forseeable future.
>
>
> Robert is right.  This is a GDI issue.  If you try Safari on OS X, you will
> see that rotated text looks fine.
>

Actually we're having similar problems in OS X, Quartz is clearly rounding
some glyph positions to integers. Don't suppose you have a sekrit way to
turn that off? :)

Rob
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