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.
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Larry Oolman
Department of Atmospheric Science
University of Wyoming
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