Re: [GD-DEVEL] Poor TTF font rendering for smaller sizes

[email protected] ("Pierre Joye") Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:40:50 +0100
Newsgroups php.gd.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
hi!

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Jason Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Pierre/Everyone,
>
> I have been using GD for the past few years, and one thing that has always
> bothered me is the poor text rendering up to and including 8px sizes. Of
> course, 8 is passible - the fuzziness can most easily be seen at 6 and 7px
> sizes.
>
> Is this specifically an FT2 issue/limitation, or is there something that can
> be done between GD and FT2 to improve the quality?

It depends a lot on the freetype version. Which FT2 version do you
use? And usin`g which language (c, php, perl, other)?

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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