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You know, you might be looking at a screenshot that has font settings (hinting etc) which work on the originating display and fail on yours. No reason to jump t

by aw3c2 12y ago

You know, you might be looking at a screenshot that has font settings (hinting etc) which work on the originating display and fail on yours. No reason to jump to snarkiness.

Scarbutt 12y ago
You do realize the screenshot is an image right?
- agumonkey 12y ago
  Don't be so quick my dear, sometimes screenshots differ dramatically from what the user sees.
- thegeomaster 12y ago
  Yes, a JPEG image :)
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
  That doesn't matter. The pixel output of subpixel rendering only works on monitors with the pixel layout it's intended for.
  - zem 12y ago
    whoa, that is something i never thought about before.
    - aw3c2 12y ago
      Take a screenshot and zoom in on text, chances are that you will see lots of subtly colored pixels around it.
- puetzk 12y ago
  Yes, but font hinting takes advantage of the specific subpixel layout of your LCD (e.g is the order RGB left-to-right, top-to-bottom, two greens and forming a square, etc). If you take a screenshot and look at it on another monitor, it's quite possible for it to look awful because your RGB subpixel layout and the source differ.