variety in letters
Well, I made my own bullet, one pixel at a time, but it looks really good. Now, here's another question. I am putting black text on white, and using the same font at the same size I get 3 very different letter e's. Take a look at : http://www.bsmanagement.com/llywelyn/images/e.gif Note how different each final e is. Is there a reason for this? This is at 8X display, but it is a little visible at 1X display too. I'm only using 20 pt font. However, reagardless, it does seem as if it should do the same thing every time. Or does it? -- Thanks! Jim Clark
Re: variety in letters
- Original Message - From: Jim Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: GIMP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 12:50 PM Subject: variety in letters Well, I made my own bullet, one pixel at a time, but it looks really good. Now, here's another question. I am putting black text on white, and using the same font at the same size I get 3 very different letter e's. Take a look at : http://www.bsmanagement.com/llywelyn/images/e.gif Note how different each final e is. Is there a reason for this? This is at 8X display, but it is a little visible at 1X display too. I'm only using 20 pt font. However, reagardless, it does seem as if it should do the same thing every time. Or does it? That would be true except for the fact that the font is anti-aliased. Basicly what gimp does (though it may actually do it slightly differently) is draw a big copy of the font into memory, then scale it down smoothly and draw that. Your font isn't monospaced so the e isn't an intigral number of pixels from where that line of text started. That's why they look different. (I think.) --Ben
Re: Does this filter exist?
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:12:44PM +0200, Stephan Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a filter to blow an image up in double size and calculate the extra pixels, instead of simply stretching them, as it is done usually. Neither "blow up" nor "stretch pixels" are well-defined terms. What do you mean by them? -- -==- | ==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |e| -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |
