Posted by: David Breakey
on October 12, 2004 11:40 PM
The big difference between Linux and Windows now, as far as I can tell, is that Linux renders typefaces consistently. Windows, on the other hand, while handling anti-aliased rendering very nicely in those places where it does, still has many locations in its interface where the rendering is handled inconsistently (one example that comes to mind is the login dialog in XP).
As for which one is better, well…I'd have to marginally side with Linux on this one. Although the rendering quality on Windows is very good, it seems to me that Linux, via <A HREF="http://www.freetype.org/" title="freetype.org">FreeType</a freetype.org>, fontconfig and the like has a better aesthetic appeal, but only in more recent desktop environments that are properly configured.
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Re:nice, but still ...
Posted by: David Breakey on October 12, 2004 11:40 PMThe big difference between Linux and Windows now, as far as I can tell, is that Linux renders typefaces consistently. Windows, on the other hand, while handling anti-aliased rendering very nicely in those places where it does, still has many locations in its interface where the rendering is handled inconsistently (one example that comes to mind is the login dialog in XP).
As for which one is better, well…I'd have to marginally side with Linux on this one. Although the rendering quality on Windows is very good, it seems to me that Linux, via <A HREF="http://www.freetype.org/" title="freetype.org">FreeType</a freetype.org>, fontconfig and the like has a better aesthetic appeal, but only in more recent desktop environments that are properly configured.
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