On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:15:21PM -0800, Billy Biggs wrote: > If you're using square pixels, fine. When generating graphics for TV > you use 720x486 for NTSC. What about overscan and such? Wouldn't you typically lose some of this screen real estate on a typical consumer televsion set? > And if you look at the nice antialiased text on CNN headline news, > you'll see that with good antialiasing your text doesn't need to be so > large or blocky. Any idea what sort of libraries exist for 'drawing' AA text in Linux? Is there direct support in the X APIs for this? I, like everybody else, am trying to build a Linux-based PVR, and am contemplating what to do with a high-grade UI. Mike.
