9 Oct
2005
9 Oct
'05
5:58 p.m.
Dave Harris wrote:
Imagine new 200 dpi devices being ready for production but not usable as no GUIs are available that can deal with that high a resolution.
I'm kind-of asking why we will succeed when other people have failed.
It sounds like the answer is "anti-aliasing". The GUI will only support devices that have enough colours to do good anti-aliased rending.
Either you have high resolution, in which case you don't need anti-aliasing, or you don't, in which case anti-aliasing will make small text unreadably blury. It seems there is nothing you can do to avoid hinting, meaning at that small a scale you have to account for device coordinates quite carefully. Regards, Stefan