From 7e5ed4e857bf5ebe25d723b0aa3d2b1b5e193e29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dima Dorfman Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:02:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] XFree86 4.0.3+ supports anti-aliased fonts. PR: 28340 Submitted by: Rahul Siddharthan --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml index 7b6b7a3154..090d4da7c9 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ @@ -1380,10 +1380,12 @@ For further configuration, refer to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.Config. - One Caveat : XFree86 does not currently support anti-aliased - font rendering. This is less of an issue at higher screen resolutions - but the output is still less than optimal when compared with MacOS or - Microsoft Windows. + Anti-aliasing: Starting with XFree86 4.0.3, XFree86 does now + support antialiased fonts. As of now, a lot of software does not + take advantage of it, but Qt (the toolkit for the KDE desktop) does; + so if you are running this version of XFree86 (or higher), Qt 2.3 + (or higher) and KDE, all your KDE/Qt applications will use + anti-aliased fonts.