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Hi, Poor font quality is an often repeated complaint from potential and current McIDAS-V users as well. Publication Quality Graphics remains a priority for many McIDAS-V users, especially since they expect to use McIDAS-V images in conference presentations and journal articles. Joleen On Feb 11, 2014, at 10:06 AM, Larry D. Oolman wrote: > 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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