[poppler] Turning off anti-aliasing and hinting?

[mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp]

Hi,

Qt4 binding of poppler (using Splash backend) has
a method to configure the anti-aliasing and hinting;
Poppler::Document::setRenderHint().
Thus, it would be possible for the application
using poppler-qt4 to have a preference switch.

But poppler cairo backend does not have a method
for such purpose. I've ever written a patch to add
such method. See discussion beginning from
	http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2010-August/006271.html
Anyway, there was no consensus whether such feature
is good idea, because too many configurable parameters
do not help the user but confuse them.

# BTW, I've not worked for the anti-aliasing on
# graphic object. I only tested the font/text objects.

Regards,
mpsuzuki

On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:38:28 +0000
David Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net> wrote:

>Hi, I would like to know if there is a simple way of turning off
>anti-aliasing and hinting.
>
>I ask because Evince (using poppler(cairo) backend) shows text as
>quite blurry. Here's a screenshot to show you how it looks. On the
>left of the vertical line is Chromium browser, on the right is Evince
>rendering some text:
>
>http://www.r0t.co.uk/sshots/shot-7822251491.gif
>
>My eyes aren't great and prefer a crisper font rendering these days.
>I'm running Slackware 14.0 with fluxbox as WM and have anti-aliasing
>turned in fontconfig.
>
>Any help greatly appreciated.
>
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