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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