Re: [ferret_users] improving fonts

[John Graybeal <graybeal@xxxxxxxxx>]

All,

Thanks for your insights regarding the fonts.  I played around quite a bit with different fonts and different sizes, and eventually realized that the problems (I think) were (a) the default font used for the relatively small labels was susceptible to visual artifacts, and (b) I wasn't used to vectorized fonts with relatively few segments (how quickly we forget the good ol' days) -- I was interpreting the sharp edges as artifacts, but really they were just the vectors.  I eventually found a font I could tolerate and wrote all the labels with it.

John

At 8:27 AM -1000 9/4/07, Ryo Furue wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>I was wondering if the unattractiveness you mention might
>be partly due to the resolution of the GIF file, in
>addition to being due to fonts.  If that's the case, you
>might want to first generate an EPS file and then convert
>it to a GIF file, using a high-enough resolution.  Before
>converting to GIF, you might need to apply Billy's trick
>of thickening the lines.  Ferret's default GIF resolution is
>perfectly good enough for PowerPoint presentation, where you
>don't have much resolution anyway, but it may not be adequate
>for, say, printing or webpages.
>
>Regards,
>Ryo


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