Antialiasing in Jaguar?

[shakespeare]

Can someone post a screenshot of each of the four different types of antialiasing in Jaguar? I'd like to see just what the idea behind them is. Are they like CoolType in Acrobat?

[MacUser1]

I'm pretty sure that ThinkSecret had a few pictures of antialiased text.ThinkSecret (http://www.thinksecret.com)

[mac15]

having used XP for a bit cleartpye is better in XP than in OSX, in OSX its more blurry and in XP its sharp and clear

[FelixDerKater]

One of the big problems with anti-aliasing in OS X is that it doesn't look very good on LCD screens, which Apple is moving toward in every product other than the eMac. Instead of looking slearer, it just looks fuzzy. :cool:

[macstudent]

cleartype sucks in xp

I have been using it and every time you scroll, or cause the a box or window to appear over the text, the text underneath loses the "clearness" the only way to rectify this is to highlight the text. it is a pain in the ass on webpages.

[awrc]

Originally posted by macstudent
cleartype sucks in xp

I have been using it and every time you scroll, or cause the a box or window to appear over the text, the text underneath loses the "clearness" the only way to rectify this is to highlight the text. it is a pain in the ass on webpages.

That's not really a flaw in the Cleartype "technology" (i.e. sub-pixel rendering), it's just that XP only applies anti-aliasing selectively (using vi in a terminal window on XP is a very weird experience) particularly where text boxes, etc, are concerned, and seems to have occasional problems with re-drawing parts of the screen properly.

However, when Cleartype works, it's definitely got an edge on the current OS X anti-aliasing in terms of clarity, the only downside is that you sometimes if you've got a sharp white to black transition you can see a reddish tinge on the left-hand side of the transition. There's presumably a corresponding tinge on the right-hand side of a transition from black to white (green or blue tinged, I can never remember the order of LCD elements).

I've seen some mention that one of the anti-aliasing options for Jaguar that's listed as "best for LCD" actually does sub-pixel rendering, not sure how true that is. It'd certainly be nice, since OS X doesn't appear to have any problems with anti-aliasing text as it's entered.