[Qt-qml] Font rendering quality in QDeclarative

[Alex]

Hi all,

For a while now, I've had the nagging feeling that text doesn't look
quite right in my application.  As a sanity check, I ran the
availableFonts.qml sample application (from declarative/text/fonts)
using QML Viewer, and it looked fine.  I then ran the same application
using QDeclarative and the results were much more similar to my
application.

Here is a side-by-side comparison of how availableFonts.qml looks when
run using QML Viewer vs QDeclarativeEngine.

http://members.shaw.ca/amonjushko/font_render_quality.png

You'll notice that the right hand side is significantly less smooth.
The difference becomes even more severe with black text on a white
background.

My C++ code looks like this:

QDeclarativeView *qmlView = new QDeclarativeView;
QDeclarativeEngine *engine = qmlView->engine();
qmlView->setSource(QUrl::fromLocalFile("/Developer/Examples/Qt/declarative/text/fonts/availableFonts.qml"));
qmlView->show();

I am using 4.7rc1 on Mac OSX 10.6.3.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Alex