Re: Trying to figure out some rasterization problems
Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]>
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On 13-04-22 01:06 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 13-04-22 07:53 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> But I have to ask: in 2013, who cares about stroke adjustment? Just >>>> draw a shape and fill it. I'm sure no print would look bad. >>> >>> Reality check: at 600dpi, without stroke adjustment, typical staff lines >>> oscillate in thickness between 5 and 6 pixels. >>> >>> Since the lines are comparatively close and parallel, a variation of >>> +20% in darkness is quite visible. And yes, it definitely makes the >>> print look bad. >> >> Interesting... >> >> Have you considered putting your primitives in a font and render using the >> Postscript text primitives? > > There is quite a bit of variation in stem lengths (they are adjusted for > collision avoidance, cross stem etc). Fixed fonts are pretty much out, > generating fonts on the fly is somewhat easier to suggest than > implemented. If you were using cairo to generate the output you could use the "user fonts" to generate fonts very easily. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ -- cairo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo