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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?
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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.
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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?

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