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[herrbdog]

Well, if it's enabled by default, it's broken. My fonts are NOT anti-aliased (by any method). Nor are any fonts on any _2000_ machine I have ever worked on. Maybe it's just my eyes are really bad?

'Course, first thing I do on a 2k machine is delete 'MicrosoftSound.wav', and then disable a bunch of stuff, including web folders and active desktop. So perhaps, it is disabled, perhaps just the option is disabled, whatever. It really doesn't matter.

Whatever, I have real work to do, and I am gonna do it.

[Jaqie Fox]

If you would stop trying to attack me for a second and look you would see that I am not your enemy, I am trying to help you, jeez.

Or why do you think I have been taking time out of my day posting here explaining things?  Sorry, but the opinion of some anonymous person on the internet I never met isn't that important to me, helping people is.

[herrbdog]

Was I attacking? Heh, that's just me. I am just  stating what I have experienced. Perhaps I have misinterpreted my experiences but they do not coincide with what you are telling me that I should have experienced.

It's all good. Internet communication can be so... shaky.

[JT]

Is this the point where you two try to meet in person? ;-)

I wasn't actually referring to font-smoothing, but something else entirely.  Font smoothing is just anti-aliasing.  I have font-smoothing enabled on my computer and I don't get the stray pixels designed to make the graphics crisper.  I'm referring more to this sort of thing:

When I scale down the image and rescale the image upwards in Paint, the grey background gains some additional colours that weren't even in the original picture: you can see the grey has been given a cyan tinge in order to better distinguish the red.  In true-colour images, with contrasting true-colour objects (e.g., a brown tree trunk in a grassy field), the effect looks very good, but in logo-type images, the effect looks terrible.

Some video drivers (I imagine OpenGL drivers in this case) and programs do this automatically to smooth out the display of some 2D graphics.

[ March 24, 2007: Message edited by: JT ]

[Jaqie Fox]

I always turn off texture compression in my videocards.  Rather, I have never seen any with it on by default... then again I never deal with integrated cards like the intel extreme crap chips et al.  Whenever a client of mine wanted to run 3D anything I always built or upgraded them with discrete graphics cards.