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  Re: Alpha problems: text is not antialiased  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 13 Nov 2001 00:15:44
Message: <3bf0ac80$1@news.povray.org>
"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote...
> In article <3beb9ed6@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
>
> > This is completely normal.
>
> Well, if you look at the images I posted, don't you agree that the result
> looks like it should look like and indeed does look like in image editing
> programs?  There is no other program that I know that sets the color of
> pixels that are "invisible" to black, and doing so causes lots of problems
> as no other program (that I have) expects it that way.  In particular is
> makes the images unusable without alpha channel display always on...

As Warp says, this is "completely normal" and it is by design. If you're not
going to use the alpha channel, don't turn it on.  It is necessary to
produce images that look "bad" in order to make the alpha channel work
correctly.

-Nathan


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