Re: FW: Text rendering issues with gm convert and unifont

On 22/05/2016 14:58, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sat, 21 May 2016, Neil Youngman wrote:
>
>> I am trying to render plain text to fax and I need to support as wide a
>> range of characters as possible, ideally the whole Unicode BMP.

<SNIP>

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> gm convert -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont.ttf
> -pointsize 12 -density 178x180 -page Letter+100+200 txt:/tmp/4778.txt
> -background white -extent 1728x2292 +dither -type bilevel
> -compress fax -density 204x196 /tmp/test.tif
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Given that the output is bilevel, it is best to do as little
> processing (e.g. resize) on the image as possible.

That seems to produce very good results.

Thank you

Neil Youngman

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