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Re: [patch] GAL pixel alignment

 

On 12/02/2019 00:39, Jeff Young wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> That was with OpenGL supersampling x2.  
> 
> Subpixel shapes look much better, but the text is worse (and you get the
> really weird line flaring in Eeschema).
> 

Any chance you can send me your Mac build binaries? I'll try it on a
macbook. I can't reproduce these awful arc/circle/text shapes on my PC.

Tom

> I’ve attached the board file.
> 
> Display is a Retina; native resolution 2880 x 1800.  screenSize in
> CAIRO_GAL::initSurface() is 1107 x 666 (which based on my window size
> looks to be 1/2 native resolution).
> 
> 
> 
>> On 11 Feb 2019, at 22:00, Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx
>> <mailto:tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> 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
> 



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