From: david bulkow <dbulkow@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:37:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d5a784f1002260837g618e411dj5008eaa222c218c4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B87D447.7000708@maht0x0r.net>
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Apple has switched to the 2.2 Gamma. Don't know when though, probably the
10.5 or 10.6 era.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:01 AM, matt <maht-9fans@maht0x0r.net> wrote:
>
> i don't know. it's not libfreetype. fontsrv asks the OS X
>>> graphics code to render each glyph into a box and then
>>> concatenates the boxes to make the subfont.
>>> all the text was noticeably lighter (more grey)
>>> than in your screen shot when i put them side by side.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> this is due to apple's algorithm for rendering glyphs.
>>
>> I don't know if it is relevant but OSX uses a 1.8 Gamma whereas PC's (&
> TVs) use 2.2
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-14 11:21 Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-14 18:34 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-14 19:09 ` Rudolf Sykora
2010-02-14 19:52 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-02-15 4:15 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-16 3:39 ` Russ Cox
2010-02-16 4:35 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-16 4:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-02-16 5:07 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-16 6:58 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-02-17 16:31 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-02-17 16:44 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-02-25 21:45 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-02-25 22:01 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-25 23:08 ` Russ Cox
2010-02-25 23:36 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-02-26 2:11 ` Russ Cox
2010-02-26 2:43 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-26 2:53 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-02 16:49 ` [9fans] int errno / errno.h patch EBo
2010-03-03 5:15 ` Russ Cox
2010-03-03 14:02 ` EBo
2010-03-03 17:59 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-02-26 14:01 ` [9fans] problem using a vera font in rio matt
2010-02-26 16:37 ` david bulkow [this message]
2010-03-08 18:42 ` Albert Skye
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