PSD overlay menu: text in anti-alias ?

When creating a PSD overlay menu, should the character setting for anti-aliasing set to "none"? I read this in the User Manual, but the resulting text looks really ragged.

Hi.
Same problem here.
Changing font antialiasing from grayscale to rgba makes the text appear for me.
Just a tip till the problem gets fixed.
EDIT:
Just tried downgrading to Cairo-1.10.2-3. Works well with grayscale font antialias setting.
Last edited by kryo (2012-04-13 03:51:48)

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