Poor text/font anti-aliasing on Symbian device
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I'm developing a simple program with Symbian^3 Qt 4.7.3. User interface is constructed with QML and contains Text elements. I use FontLoader to load custom font and use Nokia 500 as a testing device.
In simulator (Mac) text rendering looks great...
!http://korkalainen.net/text_qt_simulator_mac.jpg(Text on Mac Qt Simulator)!
...but in Nokia 500 the anti-aliasing looks like this (in my opinion it's awful):
!http://korkalainen.net/text_nokia500.jpg(Text on Nokia 500)!
Is there any way to improve or change the anti-aliasing settings used on the device? Thanks in advance for your help.
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there are some flags that you can set. Look at setRenderHints() in documentation.
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for qt quick you can set smooth property to "true"
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Setting smooth property to "true" for the Text element did not make any difference but I'll have to try the setRenderHints method. Thanks.
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I finally had time to test the setRenderHints suggestion and that one didn't work either. I asked the same question in Stack Overflow and received an answer from user blakharaz: "I had that problem too. The only solution was to go back to use the fonts preinstalled on the device."
Looks like I'm also giving up on custom fonts and go back using default preinstalled fonts.