Spinel Antialiasing — Spinel vs. Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator CC on Windows can preview vector artwork using NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated NV Path OpenGL extension. MSAA appears to be locked at 8x.

Because the Illustrator capture appears match the other gamma-incorrect captures it will be compared to Spinel with sRGB correction disabled.

If you look closely you’ll see the Adobe Illustrator rendering exhibits uneven coverage and overly dark and light “pixel popping” in many of the letter forms while Spinel remains consistent.

Spinel:

Edge:

The Adobe Illustrator image was captured on a Win10/x64 workstation with a Quadro K620 GPU installed.

I can only guess why Adobe Illustrator CC is rendering SVGs without gamma correction. Illustrator’s CPU renderer produces even darker output so this is not an NVIDIA issue. Perhaps Adobe wants to match browser behavior?