Questions tagged [anti-aliasing]
Use this tag, if your question is specifically about anti-aliasing, such as how anti-aliasing works, how to enable or disable anti-aliasing, and why anti-aliasing isn't working.
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Font size of emacs in ubuntu
I use emacs in ubuntu and I use Monaco 10 as its default font. However, the font rendering seems a bit odd compared to my gnome terminal with the same font size: It's a bit smaller and not as clear as ...
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Font smoothing in Wine
I've recently switched from Windows to Linux (elementary OS), and installed Notepad++ with Wine.
It works fine, but looks like Windows 95.
I tried setting registry settings to make the fonts look ...
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More crisp font for iTerm on OSX
On iTerm on OSX Mountain Lion the default Monaco font is not very good for white on black text
Aliased text is ugly
Anti-aliased text is too bold
I would prefer more crisp anti-aliased font. So...
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Getting crisper fonts in OS X after switching from Windows
I have switched my programming environment from Windows 7 to Mac OS X Lion, and I missed the Windows' crispy front rendering, for example, under Eclipse, you can check the screenshots.
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Windows:...
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X11 Exempt Monospace fonts from hinting in fonts.conf
I am using the following ~/.fonts.conf to encourage font smoothing, particularly in GTK apps like firefox:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>...
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How to draw a line wich is 1 pixel width and many pixels length without anti-aliasing?
I wish to draw long black line in Photoshop with no anti-aliasing.
If I use Line tool it draws line with anti-aliasing. I.e. any imprecise line location relative to the pixel margins produce ...
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Tweak Chrome image scaling anti-aliasing to match Internet Explorer 8?
I was quite surprised to see that the image scaling anti-aliasing of Internet Explorer 8 seems to be significantly better than that provided by Chrome and Firefox. The screen-shot below is of google....
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Turn off anti-aliasing in Lubuntu
I have an X setup with XMing on Windows 7 as X the server and X clients (for example lxterminal) started on a Lubuntu 11.10 running in a VirtualBox VM. This works well, but I don't really like the ...
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Can I disable anti-aliasing in Photoshop?
I'm currently working on some very small images in Photoshop. It always tries to anti-alias the edges, but this makes them really blurry on this scale.
Is there any way to turn this off, so I can ...
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How to turn off ClearType and use whole-pixel anti-aliasing in Windows 7?
In Windows XP, you can have whole-pixel anti-aliasing by setting "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" to "Standard", or have sub-pixel anti-aliasing (for LCD ...
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font anti-aliasing not working as expected
it seems that my linux has problems with anti-aliasing fonts. As you can see in the picture the labels of the menu items are slightly pixelated.
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On another system with exactly the same font ...
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Turn Off Anti-aliasing in Outlook 2003
I am running Outlook 2003 in Windows 7x64 with Internet Explorer 9. When I read a mail in the Reading Pane or by opening it, the text is anti-aliased.
When I reply to a message, the text is not anti-...
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Why Windows 7 dialog fonts are not anti-aliased?
As you can see my Windows 7 dialog fonts are not anti-aliased, but other fonts are ok. How can I get the anti-aliased fonts back?
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Pixelated PDF in Apple Preview slideshow mode, but not in regular window
I have a PDF which is a presentation exported from OpenOffice. Two of the slides in this presentation have embedded .eps graphs. When I run the presentation using Preview's slideshow mode, the ...
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How can I make non-anti-aliased text look good in Firefox on Mac OS X?
After being a Windows user for the last 10 years, I got a MacBook Pro, which I'm working on configuring to my liking.
I find small-size anti-aliased text to be blurry and hard to read, so I typically ...
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Pixelated fonts in Safari when using tap to zoom
In OS X Lion 10.7, when using Safari, I double tap content and it is zoomed. Everything works well, but some of the fonts seem jaggy. There is no anti-aliasing when zoomed. Pulling back to actual size,...
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Macbook Air - fonts not aliased on external monitor
I have 2010 Macbook Air 11", which is connected via DisplayPort to HP LP2475w LCD monitor. Unfortunately the text displayed on the external monitor has rough edges and as far as I can tell, it is not ...
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How can I improve font appearance in google chrome?
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On the left is firefox 4, on the right is chrome 12. Is there a way to make chrome render prettier fonts?
The above image was taken on windows xp. Below is another example from windows 7.
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OS X 10.6: sub-pixel antialiasing
I'm using a Core2Duo Mac mini with the latest OS X 10.6 version. Though the option "Use LCD font smoothing when available" is selected in the System Preferences, Appearance page, when I take a ...
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How can I turn off anti-aliasing for xterm / rxvt-unicode?
My system (Debian squeeze) uses anti-aliasing for fonts, which is fine for the most part. However, I would like to disable it for terminal fonts in xterm and urxvt (rxvt-unicode), and can't get that ...
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Per-application font hinting and anti-aliasing in Gnome
How can I change font-hinting and ant-aliasing on a per-application basis for Gnome? I am specifically looking to enabled hinting for gvim without affecting my other applications. It seems like the ...
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Make some of the fonts aliased
I would like to use aliased fonts in my IDE (geany), while still using anti-aliased fonts in other applications. I remember doing this for emacs (unfortunately I don't remember how I did that). How do ...
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Stop Microsoft Word 2010 from smoothing screenshots?
When I insert JPEG screenshots into Microsoft Word, it smoothes them instead of preserving the original pixels from the bitmap. When I then print to PDF (using Acrobat Distiller), depending on my ...
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How do I disable font smoothing/hinting/anti-aliasing on Firefox 4?
Full disclosure: I'm predominantly a Chrome user on Windows, but I finally let Firefox download and install the latest version, 4.0. Considering this version has been in development forever, I frankly ...
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Does Google Chrome have a flag to disable anti-aliasing on WebGL?
I have an issue I would like to investigate but I don't know how to disable anti-aliasing. Any help is appreciated.
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If I enlarge a streaming web video, it looks pixellated. When I fullscreen, it looks smooth. How can I force this smoothing filter always?
I want the same smoothing filter to be applied even when I don't fullscreen, at any scale. Windows 7 64bit, nvidia geforce 9500 GT. Firefox browser.
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Application interfaces are blurry while the chrome and window are clear
In some applications, the elements are really blurry. The first time I noticed it was when I was watching a YouTube video a few weeks ago, the browser (I've tried with Internet Explorer, Firefox and ...
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Anti-aliasing Japanese text on Windows 7?
On most websites that display Japanese text, it does not appear anti-aliased in my browser, while Latin text of course does. Kanji is universally anti-aliased, which is somewhat understandable, but ...
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How to turn on/off fonts anti-aliasing in Notepad++?
Is there a way to turn on/off anti-aliasing in Notepad++, either through settings or a certain plug-in?
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Advanced reading on Anti-aliasing?
I know the basics of how anti-aliasing works, but i wanted to read more about the advanced techniques used to get better looking and more performant AA. Where can i go to do so?
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Photoshop - How to create a completely non anti-aliased image
How to create a completely non anti-aliased image...
see the white dots on the body outline... by the way this thing is transparent and is being displayed on desktop via an application... anyways...
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How to turn on FSAA on Mac? (27" iMac i5)
I'm playing StarCraft2
there's no option to turn on FSAA in the game. As you know, there is no way to set FSAA in Mac OS X. How can I turn this feature on?
My Mac is 27" iMac i5 with ATI Radeon HD ...
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Browser fonts have messed up Anti Aliasing in Ubuntu 10.04
After years of developing on Windows (.NET) I kept hearing about all these new kids on the block using Ruby and Python. Since I wanted to try them I thought it would be nice to check out Linux at the ...
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How can I prevent Firefox from using bitmap fonts at certain zoom levels?
In Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10, certain sites seem to use bitmap fonts for any fixed-width fonts, but only at specific zoom levels. This site and other Stack Exchange sites are among the affected sites,...
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How can I turn off anti-aliasing for the text editor in Flash Builder on the Mac?
Is it possible to turn off anti-aliasing for the text editor in Flash Builder on the Mac?
For Flex Builder I was able to do this via the terminal using the following
defaults write com.adobe....
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How to make ClearType looks ok even with large fonts
I discovered that on large/huge fonts ClearType does have a negative impact. Just take a look at http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/ page (check title with huge fonts versus normal text). If you ...
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Is Windows XP standard font smoothing on by default?
There are two font smoothing options for Windows XP: Standard and ClearText. I know the default is NOT to use ClearType, but I am wondering if "standard" is on by default in the majority of XP ...
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Anything (apart from GDI++) to improve font rendering on Windows?
As GDI++ development has stopped... do any of you guys know a better GDI32 replacement for Windows? Should work on 32-bit Windows XP.
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, built-in font smoothing
I've just installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 onto my Windows XP to evaluate it and check whether it meets my preferences the way it did before. Okay, I've temporary defeated an urgent bug with a ...
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HowTo: Force AntiAliased Fonts Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 [closed]
Any ideas on how to force antialiased fonts on Symbian S60 3.1 ?
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Monaco font not antialiased in some GTK apps
I have a strange issue with the Monaco font on Ubuntu Karmic. I have recently installed the Monaco font just to see what the hype is all about.
The problem that I am facing now is that is not ...
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can't disable anti-aliasing on second monitor on Vista (Lenovo ThinkPad T500 2055)
I've got a new ThinkPad T500 2055 with Vista SP2 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650. I just extended my desktop to an external monitor, and I can't figure out how to disable font anti-aliasing on the ...
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Can you force an app to use Cleartype?
The app we use for development (CodeWright 7) is quite old and has Cleartype turned off by default. A newer version has the option to turn on font smoothing, but I'm stuck with this version and ...
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firefox aliased/jagged fonts in xfce
I've been using linux mint 7 for a couple of weeks now and I'm pretty happy with it, but I wanted to try out other desktops, e.g. KDE/Xfce
I'm not sure if it's KDE's fault of Xfce's, but firefox's ...
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Bad font anti-aliasing in Ubuntu
I'm switching from Fedora 8 to Ubuntu 9.04, and I can't seem to get it to get a good font anti-aliasing to work. It seems that Ubuntu's fontconfig tries to keep characters in integral pixel widths. ...
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