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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Works great on my big-ass board, and looks *so* much better. Zooming
feels ever so slightly slower on this board, but not enough to matter.

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 05:05:24PM +0200, Michael Steinberg 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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