[Pythonmac-SIG] Off Topic: X11 for OS X

[Bob Ippolito]

On Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003, at 03:58 America/New_York, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> Fonts are not antialiased [ ... ]
>
> I'm not surre whether this is still true, but I believe there is a
> fundamental limitation in X11 that makes anti-aliasing impossible.

Nah, it's not as true as it used to be.. I think part/most of it was 
because all the fonts in X11 were bitmap fonts, but they're not 
[necessarily] anymore.

A quick example from Google:  http://www.openbsd.org/faq/truetype.html

-bob