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[Devel] Dropouts in AA text
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Keith Packard |
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[Devel] Dropouts in AA text |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:42:13 -0800 |
Using 'timesi.ttf' (Times New Roman from Microsoft's webfonts page), I'm
losing the diagonal element in the lowercase 'z' at sizes from about 8
pixels up to about 22 pixels. At larger sizes, the diagonal is vaguely
visible, at smaller sizes the vertices are not snapped to a grid and the
diagonal looks correct.
When rasterized to a monochrome bitmap, the diagonal is visible down to
sizes around 9 pixels; after that it's just a mash of pixels.
http://keithp.com/~keithp/download/dropouts.png
shows the problem. Note that the displayed numbers are point sizes, my
monitor is 86dpi making the pixel sizes 1.2 times the point sizes.
Off to anti-alias twm...
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