XFree86 4.0.3+ supports anti-aliased fonts.

PR:		28340
Submitted by:	Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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display on a web page) and extremely large fonts (within display on a web page) and extremely large fonts (within
StarOffice) will look much better now.</para> StarOffice) will look much better now.</para>
<para>One Caveat : XFree86 does not currently support anti-aliased <para>Anti-aliasing: Starting with XFree86 4.0.3, XFree86 does now
font rendering. This is less of an issue at higher screen resolutions support antialiased fonts. As of now, a lot of software does not
but the output is still less than optimal when compared with MacOS or take advantage of it, but Qt (the toolkit for the KDE desktop) does;
Microsoft Windows.</para> 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.</para>
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