> I don't know if you are serious, but I guess that the screen shot at
> http://www.jvuletich.org/NiceFonts.html shows clearly that using black
> colored backgrounds as well as colored text on colored backgrounds is not
> broken at all.
>
>  If you care to read the page, it says:
>
>  "For black text on colored backgrounds I started experimenting with alpha
> blending (BitBlt rule 34). But I realized that rule 28 could do a much
> better work. Rule 28 takes the min value between source and destiny for each
> rgb component. So it will leave the background untouched except for those
> pixels where the font wants something darker. There, the font rules. It
> looks great."
>
>  "For doing sub pixel AA of colored text on colored background I believe you
> need to render the font again. As I can't do that, I use whole pixel AA
> (i.e. regular AA). So I prepared color maps. For example, to render a red
> font, I prepared a color map that maps the different colors in the font to
> red with different translucency. Then I display the text with alpha blending
> (BitBlt rule 34)."
>
>

>
>  Cheers,
>  Juan Vuletich
>
>  Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
> > 2008/4/16 Juan Vuletich <[hidden email]>:
> >
> >
> > > Hi Igor,
> > >
> > >  I'd be happier if you actually used it, but...
> > >
> > >  It does not require BitBlt rule 41. It uses rules 28 and 34. So it uses
> the
> > > 32 bits (actually it could work with 24, but never tried) to store the
> full
> > > subpixel data. The Form in the font has the glyphs in black with colored
> > > borders for subpixel rendering.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Yes, but that means that font will look fine only if you render black
> > text on white background.
> > For the rest 2^32-1 (font color variants) such representation is
> > completely broken.
> >
> >
> >
> > >  Cheers,
> > >  Juan Vuletich
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  Igor Stasenko wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > 2008/4/16 Juan Vuletich <[hidden email]>:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Did I ever tell I did a very small change set that allows 32 bpp
> > > > > StrikeFonts, and a set of free subpixel rendered fonts? Works on any
> > > > > platform without any new plugin. It is what you need for this to
> look
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > really
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > great (if you are not using FreeType). It is at
> > > > > http://www.jvuletich.org/NiceFonts.html .
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > I'm aware of your changes concerning fonts.
> > > > Just one question, why it requires 32bpp , not 8bpp?
> > > > A raster font should be represented by a mask and 8bpp for mask pixels
> > > > is more than enough for representing font with fully opaque/fully
> > > > transparent and semi-transparent pixels. What you doing with rest 24
> > > > bits?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >  I can understand people not using it because they prefer FreeType.
> But
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > I
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > can't understand how can somebody prefer those ugly fonts...
> > > > >
> > > > >  Cheers,
> > > > >  Juan Vuletich
> > > > >
> > > > >  Adrian Lienhard wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hey, that's cool!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > For those that don't have the time to load the code, here is a
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > screenshot
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > (sorry for the additional traffic, but since there was no other
> response
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > to
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > this mail, I think it's appropriate ;) )
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > ...Screenshot removed...
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > One thing I noticed is that in the text panes, for selected code
> the
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > keyboard shortcuts do not work and the usual context menu is
> missing.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > Adrian
> > > > > >
> > > > > > BTW: I still have a problem loading or updating to versions beyond
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > Pinesoft-Widgets-gvc.301.mcz (even if there are no windows opened
> when
> > > > > loading, which we do using MC config maps). I get an emergency
> debugger
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > from
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > which the image cannot recover.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
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