On 6/19/06, avox <avox at arcor.de> wrote: > I'd say you got it right, just one addition: > turning off antaliasing would *not* improve the text rendering. > > The problem is that for clear text rendering at low resolutions you need > hinting, which moves and alters character shapes. Obviously, if you want > to have a 1:1 correspondence between screen and print output, this is > not an option. So Scribus (and apparently InDesign) turn off hinting and > use antialiasing instead.
Exactly. I'd say this is ok, as we just have to zoom text to stop eye-strain. This wouldn't be ok in an office suite or browser though. -- Charles A. Landemaine.
