- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:17:04 -0400
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 16:49 -0700, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > font-rendering-mode: sub-pixel; is when glyph allowed to start > anywhere inside single pixel. > That is good for text under non-trivial transformations and relatively > large fonts. It's also needed when you want/need print fidelity, up to about 600dpi. (unless you are simulating a 1980s 300dpi laser printer!) Some APIs call this PrinterMatched Fonts, but the results tend to be spectacularly ugly without sub-pixel positioning plus antialiasing. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
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