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Looking forward to OpenOffice.org 2.0

Looking forward to OpenOffice.org 2.0

Posted Jan 6, 2005 12:42 UTC (Thu) by pivot (guest, #588)
Parent article: Looking forward to OpenOffice.org 2.0

From the screenshots it looks as if they still don't have subpixel font rendering, only grayscale antialiasing?


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Looking forward to OpenOffice.org 2.0

Posted Jan 6, 2005 22:22 UTC (Thu) by spitzak (subscriber, #4593) [Link]

You don't want that if you don't have an LCD display, or if you have one of those
LCD displays with RGB reversed, or are using it in portrait mode), as the
resulting color fringes will look terrible. For this reason if you want a screenshot
to look good when people view it, make it with subpixel rendering turned off.

The only other solution would be to save an image that is 9 times bigger (3x3) in
antialiased mode and add code to browsers to correctly dither this into colors to
match the subpixels on their LCD display. This is not going to happen soon.

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