Technique used by video cards to minimize stair-step edge in order to improve quality.
Questions tagged [antialiasing]
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How do I enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?
Fonts in some Wine applications (Word 2007 for example) are heavily aliased. How do I turn on anti aliasing for Wine applications?
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How to get Calibri font to display nicely
I have Calibri installed because it's the default font for M$ Office and so many of my clients send me documents using this font.
But it displays without anti-aliasing which is horrible. It's like being on a Windoze machine again :-O
It only seems…
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Setting different subpixel rendering on different monitors
I am using dual monitors, one of them rotated by 90 degrees. Font antialising does not look right in the rotated monitor (i.e., there are rainbow borders around characters).
I believe this is because X is using the same subpixel rendering order on…
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Full font hinting not working in Ubuntu 18.04
It seems that full font hinting doesn't work in 18.04.
Due to low resolution laptop screens, I prefer the fonts with full hinting and grayscale antialiasing.
Changing the font hinting from medium to full seem to have no effect whatsoever.
Here's how…
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Green border around fonts in GIMP
I have a problem in the way text appears in GIMP, I think its related to hinting or anti-aliasing but I have no idea about the cause nor the solution for it.
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Disabling the anti-aliasing for a specific font with user's fonts.conf
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I am trying to disable anti-aliasing via ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf for a specific font, but so far without success. If my understanding is correct, then the cause is, that the system wide configuration takes precedence over my own…
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How do I turn off font pixel antialiasing only in Terminal?
For programming, I like to turn off font antialiasing (i.e. select the Monochrome option) because it makes the terminal text look a lot sharper at smaller font sizes. But then everything in the web browser looks worse.
Is there a way to have the…
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Compiz antialiasing with xserver-xorg-video-radeon?
Window previews are ugly on my computer:
Is there any solution to make them smooth? BTW window previews in Metacity with composition enabled (/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager) are looking much better than in Compiz.
I am using the open…
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Bad anti-aliasing in some applications
There was an update a few weeks ago that seemed to mess with anti-aliasing in some applications. Firefox, Thunderbird, and the text in some apps such as Mousepad and Leafpad (but not the rest of the window) are affected, whereas Chrome and…
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How to switch on sub-pixel anti-aliasing for fonts?
In Fedora 16 (gnome) I did it without any problems. But in Ubuntu 11.10(gnome) in System Settings -> Appearance I can't see any tab for fonts settings.
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IntelliJ Bad Font Rendering
I've recently installed IntelliJ on my Ubuntu system and realized that the font I want to normally use Monaco doesn't render properly in IntelliJ. So, the problem was slightly fixed from this post however the editor would still not render properly…
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Per-monitor font hinting
I have two displays out of which one is rotated to be vertical. Is there a way to set font hinting to be VRGB on vertical display and RGB for horizontal display?
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Metacity/Compiz antialias?
Have Ubuntu developers considered adding antialas to a window manager(metacity) in Ubuntu 11.04? If there is coming Unity and Compiz is needed, why not to add this feature to corners of windows manager?
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How to activate LibreOffice anti-aliasing?
LibreOffice looks terrible compared to the rest of my OS and other text applications, such as MS Word. It looks like it has no anti-aliasing, how can I activate it?
Here's a screenshot of what it looks like:
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 if that helps.
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Anti-aliasing changed after update (or something...)
The anti-aliasing of my system (of GTK?) has gone weird after I did one of two things - do a system update, and install gimp 2.7 beta. See images:
Before: After:
Before: After:
Here's the current rendering comparison between Chromium,…
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