Field Detail

• DEFAULT

  public static final Antialias DEFAULT

  Use the default antialiasing for the subsystem and target device. Assuming your X server is hehaving, this will Just Work (tm) properly, and is what you want.

• GRAY

  public static final Antialias GRAY

  Perform single-color antialiasing.

  This means (for example) "using shades of gray for black text on a white background".

• NONE

  public static final Antialias NONE

  Don't do antialiasing.

  Strictly, this means using a "bilevel alpha mask".

• SUBPIXEL

  public static final Antialias SUBPIXEL

  Perform antialiasing based on the subpixel ordering.

  When the layout of the individual colour elements making up each individual pixel on an LCD panel is known, then Cairo is able to do an even more subtle job of antialiasing.

  This has no effect on CRT monitors, where the pixels are rendered as unique points by the ray gun, and are not the result of the cumulative effect of three different co-located light sources at each pixel.