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AGREED! Question is, who would be tasked with development on the VisAD side? _____________________________________________ Kevin Tyle, Systems Administrator Dept. of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences University at Albany Earth Science 235, 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222 Email: ktyle@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: 518-442-4578 _____________________________________________ ________________________________________ From: idvusers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <idvusers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Larry D. Oolman <ldoolman@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 11:06 AM To: don.murray@xxxxxxxx; idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [idvusers] IDV Font Quality On 02/11/14 08:01, Don Murray wrote: > Hi Paul- > > On 2/10/14 3:41 PM, Paul Graham wrote: >> Is it possible to improve the font quality in IDV, or are there any plans >> afoot by the development team to do so? > > The font quality varies from platform to platform. I find that I get better > quality on Windows than I do with Mac. But > both suffer from the effects you see. Text using fonts gets turned into a > series of triangles, filling the outline of > the letter edges. I find Century Gothic works pretty well, but still not > great. The Hershey fonts use lines only, but > you see the lines when the text gets big. > >> It appears IDV does not handle scalable fonts, so often text appears >> pixelated, jagged or with artefacts, especially when rescaled. > > A possible solution would be to use the Java 3D Text3D objects. That would > require some significant development to add > it to VisAD first, and then access that in the IDV. I'm not aware of anybody > who is interested in doing that, although > it would go a ways towards Unidata's goal of "publication quality graphics" > for the IDV. > > Don I would vote that improving the fonts should be a high priority. It is one of the major reasons that I see resistance from switching from GEMPAK. -- Larry Oolman Department of Atmospheric Science University of Wyoming Dept. 3038, 1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, WY 82071 ldoolman@xxxxxxxx http://www.uwyo.edu/atsc _______________________________________________ idvusers mailing list idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For list information, to unsubscribe, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/
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