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[José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

It works great on my end! As for the tool, I think it would be good to
just have it in a repo on github, as it could be very useful for other
projects too.

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Michael Steinberg
<michsteinb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I've been working on trying to solve the blurred font issue in the OpenGL
> canvas. The current state of the work can be found in my branch "sdf" (
> https://code.launchpad.net/~decimad/kicad/+git/kicad/+ref/sdf ). It uses a
> technique called "multichannel signed distance field" to recreate clear
> edges and corners in high zoom situations. The code is not polished for
> commiting yet! A motivational comparison screenshot before/after:
> https://s10.postimg.io/k00tnaax5/comparison.png
>
> It would be great if brave members could test the branch to see if it runs
> well on different hardware levels and if you are happy with the visuals.
>
> To create the font texture atlas I wrote a command-line tool that is only
> set up to build on windows currently (nothing platform dependent included,
> but it's currently a visual studio project). I don't know if there's a space
> to upload helper tools and if platform dependency would be accepted there. I
> could probably upload it to a github project though.
>
> Cheers!
> Michael
>
>
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