Clear type issue

[Rolfkitt]

Hello,

Can someone tell if it's possible to get the same antialiasing used in paint? Paint uses some kind of multicolourd cleartype, is it possible to get same antialiasing in gimp?

See attachement. Libre office is the same text antialiasing paint uses.

[Ofnuts]

This is called sub-pixel rendering. This is OK for text rendered on-the-fly on the screen but doesn't work for fixed text in images that can be displayed on other screens (because the multi-color thing depends on the ordering of colors in your LCD display), and won't work on radically different screens such as CRT, and is invalid if the text is transformed (even with a mere 90° rotation).

In practice this is useful only for small sizes (say, up to 14) and the text in Gimp is usually much bigger. IIRC the behavior you seek existed on Linux and was reported as a bug...

[Rolfkitt]

(04-28-2019, 02:14 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: This is called sub-pixel rendering. This is OK for text rendered on-the-fly on the screen but doesn't work for fixed text in images that can be displayed on other screens (because the multi-color thing depends on the ordering of colors in your LCD display), and won't work on radically different screens such as CRT, and is invalid if the text is transformed (even with a mere 90° rotation).

In practice this is useful only for small sizes (say, up to 14) and the text in Gimp is usually much bigger. IIRC the behavior you seek existed on Linux and was reported as a bug...

Thanks for reply,