Comparison of font rendering engines

FontFocus

Unhinted, gamma 1.15

Acrobat 6, Windows, TrueType

Acrobat 6, Windows, Type1 (URW font)

Acrobat 6, Windows, TrueType, CoolType

Acrobat 6, Windows, Type1, CoolType

Acrobat 5, Linux

Acrobat 5, Linux, CoolType

Microsoft Word (no AA)

Microsoft Word, ClearType

Ghostscript 8.30

Mac OS X 10.3 Preview

Mac OS X 10.3 Preview, smoothing

xpdf 2.01