On Nov 11, 2003, at 5:48 PM, Yemu wrote:

i ve been talking on the jabber with nathan yesterday about exporting without AA, and he told me to try to remove "ifs" from libnr/nr-svp-render.c (make them always true) which should remove antialiasing globally i did remeve them, recompiled and here are the effects:

• icons and all objects in document look ugly :-) no antialiasing :-)
• exported png at high resolutions (i.e. 600dpi) look good. objects

look ok, text looks a little bit worse, but is acceptable (you can check example here: http://www.yemu.website.pl/test3.png) concluding: maybe it would be possible to add an option to export dialog (no-antialiasing -EXPERIMENTAL) or something like that. ps. i've just checked out cvs and i must say InkScape rulez!

The example presented demonstrates perfect output for game art. Perhaps we could explore other uses for output with various stages of aliasing?

- Buffer an alpha channel with anti-aliasing, on an image without aa and vice versa. - Alias elements on a per-element basis. This would be helpful in outputting text with aa, but not shapes, and other variants on this idea. Obviously this would mean extending the underlying svg to understand whether or not to apply aa on output, perhaps there's a smarter way to go about this. You could imagine complex documents where being able to toggle aa per path would be extremely helpful.

-Thomas