From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NfpKp-0006dV-S9 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:49:03 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NfpKn-0006bZ-5e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:49:01 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57110 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NfpKm-0006al-61 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:49:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NfpKl-0007HQ-FX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:49:00 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:9613) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NfpKl-0007HK-B0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:48:59 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so630726fgb.12 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:48:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:in-reply-to :references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer :content-transfer-encoding; bh=VGr6DfvP4mXbTvdp/8HNDIxHXhqJI4/Q7Y+W1iMQmmo=; b=bZDKw9e57sWJ5RmIqXM8kZeH3H0hMOUN0/khu1KOniStgoQVo/J2b9NF94HNOWGM5K BQeFW5T+SgQtSwz/MSG3aLcZ9q20fw07XQLux208RZavUkT6RNXn2tjZywN4Mww+OURu gGwqQY1DnUhmN7sw5vnUpNiTNIxx9nqibvZiI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id :mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=GRfTDp6IYkz4P46L7bjoHuGVL4U84oxYoVbu+wfpGjHcYw4nQLW5Ilej1glOcygAJ/ Gz3/zS758a2jCEqF4fczT9AmE96GrbSYayAKZbKWnmtxBWrJC6qICTfdZGhCAiKRfrDj QQDMBlvCIqIVJUBN1Xby6pxyJljO+nNgO6/ik= Received: by 10.87.37.2 with SMTP id p2mr1962880fgj.66.1265957336662; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:48:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?78.140.16.69? ([78.140.16.69]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d8sm6308834fga.28.2010.02.11.22.48.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:48:56 -0800 (PST) From: Evgeny Kolesnikov To: The development of GNU GRUB In-Reply-To: <2e59e6971002112221u656186c5u564acee1d4e0f092@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B585690.8090602@gmail.com> <1264160815.29881.61.camel@EK> <4B5EB1A5.5040200@gmail.com> <1264500247.3195.22.camel@EK> <2e59e6971002112221u656186c5u564acee1d4e0f092@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:48:54 +0600 Message-ID: <1265957334.2292.14.camel@EK> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Antialiased fonts patch. X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:49:01 -0000 On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 00:21 -0600, richardvoigt@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > On 26 January 2010 11:04, Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >>> At first I was completely against antialiasing support because of > ... > > In fact I think that 4bit antialiasing should suffice. 16 tones of the > > same color should be more than enough for most cases. Still I am not > > sure that it will make the rendering really faster than 8bit AA. > > By antialiasing it seems that you mean alpha channel. > > Has anyone considered instead supersampling in the x-direction? This > also results in anti-aliased text but in addition yields more accurate > kerning and on LCD displays can be used for sub-pixel rendering. I'd > say 8x supersampling, but since LCD displays have three components > (R,G,B) 6x might be better. Sub-pixel AA is in progress.