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Bug #272: Anti-aliasing of Album Text Over White or Light Backgrounds is Bad

Kind bug
Product Synergy
When Created , updated
Status open
Reporter Grant Erickson
Tags no tags

Description

When the album art text for the floater renders over white or light backgrounds, the anti-aliasing ends up looking quite chunky and poor. This in contrast to the excellent anti-aliasing for the <<, || and >> controls put up by Synergy or those for volume, brightness or contrast put up by OS X.

Can the anti-aliasing for text be improved to match that of the other controls?

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    See also request #128 which is about anti-aliasing of cover art. I would classify this as a general anti- aliasing problem that isn't specific to white over light backgrounds (especially evident when I enable customizable colors in the Floater). I might reword the summary to reflect that at some point.

    In the case of request #128 I am using the standard Cocoa routines to composite an NSImage into a view and in this one we are talking about the same kind of thing, but using standard NSAttributedString calls. If the quality cannot be improved by tweaking (for example, offsetting things by 0.5 pixels, which to me seems a bit of a hack) then I might have to dump Cocoa for drawing and go down to a lower level API.

  2. Greg Hurrell

    Changing assignment to reflect my new email address.

    https://wincent.dev/a/news/archives/2006/05/change_of_email.php

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