Hi Everyone,
Thanks to everyone who has helped answer my query so far. At least it
appears I'm not alone in wanting better font quality.
Bill - thanks for the suggestion of the ISL script. I haven't tried it yet
but I would like to think there is consistency between the GUI and the
scripting module. It is a pity if the only way one can obtain the best
quality is through scripting.
Hopefully, some of the comments and suggestions in this thread may be of
help to the developers.
Cheers,
Paul
On 12 February 2014 05:55, Joleen Feltz <joleenf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I should reiterate what Bill stated. It would be nice if this could be
> made easier for everyone. Many people to whom I have suggested this option
> have decided against it. They only want to use the UI.
>
> Joleen
>
> On Feb 11, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Joleen Feltz wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't often use ISL scripts, but I do use writeImage from the jython
> shell in McIDAS-V, I believe this would work in IDV as well. Since it is a
> challenge to remember everything, I have saved some of my favorite
> annotations help documentation so that I can copy, paste and adjust as
> needed:
> >
> > fileName = "Something.jpg"
> >
> > writeImage(fileName,"matte background=white top=100;matte
> background=white bottom=150;\
> > colorbar width=500 height=20 anchor=UM place=UM,0,20 showlines=true
> interval=5 showunit=true display=IASI;\
> > overlay text=IASI Dual Regression Surface Skin Temperature 16:55 UTC
> place=UM,0,60 anchor=UM color=black fontsize=20 fontface=Arial;\
> > overlay text=2013-05-20 anchor=LM place=LM,0,-90 color=black
> fontsize=32 fontface=Arial;\
> > overlay text=GOES-13 Visible Albedo 16:55 UTC anchor=LM place=LM,0,-60
> color=black fontsize=24 fontface=Arial;\
> > overlay text=RAP 850-500hPa Wind Shear Vectors 17:00 UTC
> place=LM,0,-30 anchor=LM color=black fontsize=24 fontface=Arial")
> >
> > Joleen
> >
> > On Feb 11, 2014, at 12:28 PM, the Fingerhuts wrote:
> >
> >> All,
> >>
> >> To obtain better quality text I often use the drawing control or use an
> isl script.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> P.S. Please make this easy for everyone to use.
> >>
> >> On 2/11/2014 10:01 AM, 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
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
> >> email: fingerhuts3@xxxxxxxxx
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