nanogui: Thread: Font rendering

Hi All,

Is their any font smoothing-like utility for TT fonts? I'm using arial fonts on a 320x240 screen and the letters looks jagged and sometimes missing a few points.
On a 4" screen, it looks ok, but on a 6" screen the problem is clearly visible.

Is their a solution to this problem?

Thanks.




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To add,
I have used KERNING and ANTIALIASING which makes a better font rendering. It that the best possible with this package. Are there any other packages that would improve this?

Thanks,
--Robbie.

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> Hi All,
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> Is their any font smoothing-like utility for TT fonts? I'm using arial
> fonts on a 320x240 screen and the letters looks jagged and sometimes
> missing a few points.
> On a 4" screen, it looks ok, but on a 6" screen the problem is clearly
> visible.
> 
> Is their a solution to this problem?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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: I have used KERNING and ANTIALIASING which makes a better font rendering.
It that the best possible with this package. Are there any other packages
that would improve this?

When you say "this package" if you mean nano-X: the font rendering
for truetype fonts in nano-X will render accurately any antialiased
font with full accuracy.  Basically, the TTF font library supplies
our font engine with a greyscale rather than black-and-white
bitmap for each character.  The character is then displayed
with the edges using values between white and black for
the effect.

Its up to the .ttf file creator to specify or compute the anti-aliasing
for each character, nano-X doesn't do any of this.

Regards,

Greg




: > Is their any font smoothing-like utility for TT fonts? I'm using arial
: > fonts on a 320x240 screen and the letters looks jagged and sometimes
: > missing a few points.
: > On a 4" screen, it looks ok, but on a 6" screen the problem is clearly
: > visible.
: >
: > Is their a solution to this problem?
: >
: > Thanks.
: >
: >
: >
: >
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: > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com
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