Re: Trying to figure out some rasterization problems
David Kastrup <[email protected]>
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Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]> writes: > 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. I have a healthy respect for things that are considered to be doable very easily. At any rate, we are generating our PostScript directly. -- David Kastrup -- cairo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo