At 12:09 -0800 3/19/01, Ned Konz wrote:
>On Monday 19 March 2001 11:33, David N. Smith \(IBM\) wrote:
>
>> I tried this again, hoping it had been fixed or that I was holding my mouth
>> right. Still poor luck:
>>
>> * It doesn't work on a Mac at all, even in 3.1alpha.
>>
>> * On Windoze it sort of works (using 3.0) but I still get what looks like a
>> thin black line filled with grey, and the grey slops over onto the line
>> sometimes. It is basically unreadable lumps of grey at 12 point with some
>> of the black border line showing.  At 48 point the letters are clearer and
>> readable but are still a partial black outline with grey filling. I've
>> tried Arial and Verdana with the same result. (I'm running Win 2000 Pro but
>> had the same results on Win 95 months ago).
>
>Which were you trying? Using installTTF:asTextStyle:sizes: ?

Yes.

>This doesn't do any hinting, so it tends to look pretty bad at small point
>sizes. And at least on my system, I have to have the display depth set to 32
>for the converted fonts to look like something other than what you describe
>(I just found this out right now).

Hinting would be nice to have. Using Verdana as my first test, and incorporation your discovery about 32- bit color, things now work. 24 point is the smallest that might be usable, though some letters are slightly ragged. Things improve rapidly up through the sizes 30, 36, 42, 48, 60, and 72.

>Are you getting a good looking result out of the sample of the TrueType font
>from the FileList? You can bring up its halos and get a new sample string
>from the center purple halo. This string can be changed (using string: ) if
>you just need an occasional headline in a nice font.
>
>> Am I missing something? The process seems simple enough and seems to work
>> flawlessly, except that the result is not very desirable.
>>
> > Dave
>
>--
>Ned Konz




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