Re: [idvusers] IDV Font Quality

Hi,

Poor font quality is an often repeated complaint from potential and current 
McIDAS-V users as well.  Publication Quality Graphics remains a priority for 
many McIDAS-V users, especially since they expect to use McIDAS-V images in 
conference presentations and journal articles.  

Joleen


On Feb 11, 2014, at 10:06 AM, Larry D. Oolman wrote:

> On 02/11/14 08:01, Don Murray wrote:
>> Hi Paul-
>> 
>> On 2/10/14 3:41 PM, Paul Graham wrote:
>>> Is it possible to improve the font quality in IDV, or are there any plans
>>> afoot by the development team to do so?
>> 
>> The font quality varies from platform to platform.  I find that I get better 
>> quality on Windows than I do with Mac.  But
>> both suffer from the effects you see.  Text using fonts gets turned into a 
>> series of triangles, filling the outline of
>> the letter edges.  I find Century Gothic works pretty well, but still not 
>> great.  The Hershey fonts use lines only, but
>> you see the lines when the text gets big.
>> 
>>> It appears IDV does not handle scalable fonts, so often text appears
>>> pixelated, jagged or with artefacts, especially when rescaled.
>> 
>> A possible solution would be to use the Java 3D Text3D objects.  That would 
>> require some significant development to add
>> it to VisAD first, and then access that in the IDV.  I'm not aware of 
>> anybody who is interested in doing that, although
>> it would go a ways towards Unidata's goal of "publication quality graphics" 
>> for the IDV.
>> 
>> Don
> 
> I would vote that improving the fonts should be a high priority.
> It is one of the major reasons that I see resistance from switching from 
> GEMPAK.
> 
> -- 
> Larry Oolman
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> University of Wyoming
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