I've just had a look at you sample:
https://spark.adobe.com/page/clCst4mdUu8Jy/
and I have to admit that plain-bold apparently random alternation is
pretty pug-ugly.
I don't know HOW you are getting the Chinese characters to show up, and
as your sample
does not contain selectable text I cannot "go backwards for Christmas"
and work out
what the Unicode addresses of some of those glyphs are.
My own experience with Unicode in LiveCode has been confined to Indic,
Slavic and Old English
alphabetic forms and I have always ended up with "proper" anti-aliased
true type representation.
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At the risk of being seen as extremely goofy . . .
Are ALL your Chinese characters contained in a single font?
[Even though that is claimed on the page]
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Certainly IFF all your Chinese characters are contained in a single font
and are
NOT differently weighted (i.e. some are not BOLD while others are not)
I don't think LiveCode should be at fault.
What makes things a bit awkward is how your text images online are
generated . . .
If you were to export a PNG or JPEG image from your textField inwith
your LiveCode stack
you would get an EXACT representation of what the field looked like.
My experience of exporting a field as HTMLtext has also always been
positive as long
as the font of the resultant HTML page is a webfont derived from the
font used inwith LiveCode.
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I won't pretend to understand what you say about Skia.
But I do wonder why there has to be anything between LiveCode and your
web representation.
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I, also, don't understand the necessity for Adobe Spark.
But I'm one of those people who like to keep things simple.
This: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/dwriterpro.html
contains NOTHING more than simple images rendered out of a LiveCode
stack as screenshots from a textField.
Richmond.
On 13/8/2018 10:02 pm, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote:
To follow up with my question from yesterday…and to continue with Biblical
allusions others have begun…
I’ve descended into <font> hell, which I’m trying get out with some light from
LiveCode Mark!
To recap, the rendering of Chinese characters in Windows 10 is willy-nilly
through different versions of LC. Earlier versions display bitmap glyphs, later
versions display drawn characters. Now in LC 9.0 it displays a MIX of apparent
bold and plain of characters all set identically.
Examples:
https://spark.adobe.com/page/clCst4mdUu8Jy/
<https://spark.adobe.com/page/clCst4mdUu8Jy/>
What’s going on here? Bugs?
My personal situation—this is a multi-year project that includes one of the two
largest academic book publishers in China who are looking to our project as the
vanguard of digital publishing in their country. They are looking at this text
display and saying, “we can’t publish this.” Now, they want to show it at a
publishing conference...
The Chinese translators say the bitmap text is great, but the anti-aliased
rendered text is unusable. And everyone there has Windows. We with roman-text
eyes don’t necessarily see a problem; they with Chinese character eyes are very
particular.
I’m supposing this is Skia doing the work (with the harfbuzz text shaping
library?)?? If true, I see from the Skin/harfbuzz documentation on Font
Embedded Bitmaps:
"bool isEmbeddedBitmapText() const
Returns true if Font Engine may return Glyphs from font bitmaps instead of from
outlines.”
https://skia.org/user/api/SkPaint_Reference#Subpixel_Text
Can there be a font property option to display just the bitmap? Or are there
other fixes that can be made?
Peter Bogdanoff
ArtsInteractive
On Aug 12, 2018, at 4:15 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Songti SC Regular
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