[Qt-interest] [Linux] Ugly anti-aliasing (still) in Qt 4.5

[andrew.m.goth at l-3com.com]

Sebastian Krause wrote:
> andrew.m.goth at l-3com.com wrote:
>> Sebastian Krause wrote:
>>> http://realpath.org/screenshots/qt.png
>>> 
>>> In the foreground Qt with rather blurry fonts and in the background
>>> Gtk, demonstrating how it is supposed to look like.
>>
>> I'm guessing you have horizontal BGR ordering.
> 
> No, it's vertical RGB ordering

The Qt screenshot shows horizontal ordering with what I consider to be
poor hinting.  Shifting the strokes horizontally by one or two subpixels
would eliminate much of the color fringing.

So we have two problems here.  One, Qt is using horizontal ordering when
it should be using vertical.  (Other emails in this thread address thi.)
Two, the hinting is off.  Maybe the hinting is actually good, but
everything is shifted, which makes it look bad.

-- 
Andy Goth
<amgoth at link.com>