Re: [JPP-Devel] Rendering problems affecting the quality of printing

2007-07-08 Thread Stefan Steiniger
A very late response to Larry: so, do you think that your modification of the BasicStyle constructor is now obsolete, since we can use 0 BTW... I am exporting in svg and then prepare my images in illustrator(inkscape). Thus, i don't really have styling problems. but who has the time to do

Re: [JPP-Devel] Rendering problems affecting the quality of printing

2007-07-08 Thread Larry Becker
Hi Stefan, We still may wish to change the UI so that it is possible to set fractional line widths as is possible in other programs. That would require more refactoring. It depends on how much control users need. Such capability is always included in programs like Illustrator, and is commonly

Re: [JPP-Devel] Rendering problems affecting the quality of printing

2007-07-08 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Larry Becker schrieb: Hi Stefan, We still may wish to change the UI so that it is possible to set fractional line widths as is possible in other programs. ok. That would require more refactoring. It depends on how much control users need. Such capability is always included in

Re: [JPP-Devel] Rendering problems affecting the quality of printing

2007-07-08 Thread Larry Becker
I would be interested in the perceptual limit. Our users typically produce maps for limited distribution in two different formats: DXF and PDF. It also may be printed on either a standard printer or a large size plotter in order to study it more closely or prepare for a meeting with a client.

Re: [JPP-Devel] Rendering problems affecting the quality of printing

2007-07-08 Thread Stefan Steiniger
ok.. at my home computer i have only a german version (with images), i will look tomorrow at my work place for the english version and send the (pdf) pages with the thresholds off-list to you (for copyright issues). I also used a few of the recommended minimum values for map making in the

Re: [JPP-Devel] Rendering problems affecting the quality of printing

2007-06-30 Thread Sascha L. Teichmann
@Larry: IIRC the zero policy was introduced by Sun as a reaction to some user complains at bugs.sun.com that lines were vanishing when the scale becomes very small. I can't remember when that was done. Before 1.4? @SS: What do you think does Batik? It simply creates line x1=.. y1=... x2=...

Re: [JPP-Devel] Rendering problems affecting the quality of printing

2007-06-29 Thread Larry Becker
More surprises (for me). Someone stop me if this is already documented. If you set the line width to zero, you get very faint lines. The documentation for BasicStroke says, If width is set to 0.0f, the stroke is rendered as the thinnest possible line for the target device and the antialias hint

[JPP-Devel] Rendering problems affecting the quality of printing

2007-06-25 Thread Larry Becker
The purpose of this thread is to document problems with BasicStyle rendering that primarily affect the quality of printing plug-ins Problem (1): BasicStyle lineStroke defaults to width 1. See Geoff's About Line Decorations and Printing thread in the archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL