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[Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>]

On 11/02/2019 18:43, Jeff Young wrote:
> I hadn’t played around with PCBNew yet… and sadly it looks uniformly
> worse with the changes.
> 
> Again, zoomed up to make the differences clearer:
> 

Hi Jeff,

This looks horrible! Could you tell me which display settings you used
(and possibly send me the layout)?

Cheers,
Tom
> 
> 
>> On 11 Feb 2019, at 17:18, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> I think text looks best with no anti-aliasing.  Is it possible to turn
>> it off just for text?  (Or is this a Mac-specific result?)
>>
>>
>>> On 11 Feb 2019, at 17:14, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hmm, playing around with it some more I’m finding issues at some zoom
>>> levels.  I’ve blown this screenshot up by 200% so you can more easily
>>> see that the emitter arrow on the top transistor appears hollow and
>>> the tip isn’t aligned to the wire.  Bottom one looks better, but is
>>> still somewhat un-aligned:
>>> <PastedGraphic-10.tiff>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 11 Feb 2019, at 17:06, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 11 Feb 2019, at 16:49, Tomasz Wlostowski
>>>>> <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx <mailto:tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/02/2019 02:12, Jeff Young wrote:
>>>>>> This hugely improves Fallback on Mac.  Still doesn’t look as good
>>>>>> as OpenGL (or Legacy), but it’s at least usable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't see any difference between the look of Fallback mode on your
>>>>> screenshots vs my machine. Are you referring to the text rendering? If
>>>>> so, it's our stroke font to blame (JP explained it), at low
>>>>> scales/resolutions you need font hinting...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Those screenshots were all made with your patches installed.  Before
>>>> them the line-widths in Fallback on Mac were all over the place and
>>>> sometimes bloated to double-width.  I attributed it to lack of
>>>> Retina display support, but I don’t know if that’s actually the case
>>>> or not.
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