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Re:Modern Text Rendering with Linux by raphlinus on Sunday August 04, 2019 @12:18PM (#20607402)
It's important to make the distinction between subpixel positioning and subpixel (RGB) rendering. I'd personally say yes to the former, even at high dpi, and no to the latter if you're on a mobile device. The kerning errors you get from quantizing the position of glyphs to integer pixels are, to my eyes, a noticeable degradation of quality.
Re:Modern Text Rendering with Linux by criddell on Sunday August 04, 2019 @01:48PM (#20608050)
Do you know if the layout engines for laser printers do subpixel stuff?
Re:Modern Text Rendering with Linux by microcolonel on Sunday August 04, 2019 @02:51PM (#20608483)
Most laser printers tend to use PostScript (a Turing complete language), which does not know about displays hardly at all. It does arbitrary positioning.
Re:Modern Text Rendering with Linux by criddell on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:05PM (#20615204)
> It does arbitrary positioning.

So are you saying that whether or not subpixel effects are accounted for is implementation dependent?