- 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
