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Anti-aliased fonts?

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iPodFoo:
Anybody know if Rockbox will ever include support for anti-aliased fonts like truetype or postscript?

And also, if there will be more advanced "formatting" options for the text? Be nice to set a border width to stop text being nudged right up to the edge or set kerning or paragraph spacing etc?

Its at times like this I wish I was a programmer rather than a designer.  :(

ps. How do you get the "new" banner next to your topic in this forum?

Llorean:
The "New" banner just shows up in topics where there are posts that you haven't read.

Antialiased fonts are *extremely* unlikely. Doing the antialiasing realtime would be exceptionally slow and bad for battery life. On players that have them, they're usually pre-rendered, not something that meshes well with customizable backdrops and such like we have.

iPodFoo:
Shame anti-aliased fonts cant be used. makes quite a difference it quality. I take it, it would be too much to compute if you mapped each character to an image, even if it was just for white backgrounds?

What about my other question about extra formatting options? Such as different font sizes on the same page? Or able to kern or set margins etc?

Cheers.

Llorean:
Why would you do it just for white backgrounds?

Different fonts (which would include sizes) and margins are planned features eventually. I'm not really sure how well kerning could be supported, at all.

iPodFoo:
I spose kerning isnt important.

I look forward to when the formatting features are implemented.  ;)

Cheers.

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