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Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
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
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