Re: Text

["Kent" <kent4jmj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Scaling idea sounds like a good place to start. Thanks.



--- In gimpwin-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@...> 
wrote:
>
> > From: "Kent" <kent4jmj@...>
> > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:11:53 -0000
> 
> > Is it normal for GIMp to have such poor quality
> > Text?
> 
> You must have some pretty high standards, or else
> must be trying to use fairly small text. I find that
> a use of the kerning and leading controls lets me
> set type that I like a lot, and I used to write
> typesetting software.
> 
> Gimp is focused around TrueType, pretty much the
> industry default standard. In part then the quality
> of text you see is based on the quality of TrueType
> fonts you have available.
> 
> If I understand correctly (not always the case),
> GIMP internally is using a library called "pango" to
> handle that text, and that library is used not just
> by GIMP but by a large assortment of other
> MS-Windows and Linux tools. There would be a chorus
> of complaints if that library were rendering
> TrueType fonts' text particularly badly for everyone.
> 
> > I switched Hinting Aliasing and auto hinter on.
> 
> Did you try doing that as two superposed text
> layers, one with and one without those feature
> enabled, and then doing a "difference" mode merge of
> the two layers to see if the controls were having
> any effect at all for you?
> 
> > Still not very good.
> 
> Well, one approach is just to render the text at big
> point sizes, which usually render prettier, but then
> scale the text layer small to fit where you intend
> to use it. I do that quite a lot.
> 
> xanthian, a.k.a. Kent Paul Dolan ;-)
>



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