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| Type rendering |
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Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:32:59 -040 |
This is something that's bothered me to greater or lesser extents over
the years, but lately has been a bigger thorn than before. Is there some
setting I can change to smooth the fonts on screen while they're still
fonts? As soon as I convert text to curves, it looks really nice (and
readable, too...) but as long as they're still a font, it's like, yuck.
The reason this has started to bother me is simple - I downloaded and am
using Safari for any of my web browsing that's text intensive because
the text is less tiring to read. I dug into the whole font rendering
topic and found out about the difference between Mac and Windows
rendering, but that only made what Draw does even more confusing. I've
activated ClearType in Windows, but it obviously doesn't affect how Draw
renders fonts on screen. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Petros
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Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:45:45 -060 |
Under "View" in Corel, are you using "enhanced"? It smoothes
the fonts.
Cindy
"petros" <keytronic@petros.pl> wrote in message
news:47e9b581$1_2@cnews...
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> This is something that's bothered me to greater or lesser extents over
> the years, but lately has been a bigger thorn than before. Is there some
> setting I can change to smooth the fonts on screen while they're still
> fonts? As soon as I convert text to curves, it looks really nice (and
> readable, too...) but as long as they're still a font, it's like, yuck.
>
> The reason this has started to bother me is simple - I downloaded and am
> using Safari for any of my web browsing that's text intensive because
> the text is less tiring to read. I dug into the whole font rendering
> topic and found out about the difference between Mac and Windows
> rendering, but that only made what Draw does even more confusing. I've
> activated ClearType in Windows, but it obviously doesn't affect how Draw
> renders fonts on screen. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Petros
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Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:13:29 -040 |
I am. On my monitor there's little if any improvement till I convert to
curves. Before I do that, I can't even say what typeface I'm using
sometimes it can look so bad...
Petros
Cindy Vaughan-Sanger wrote:
> Under "View" in Corel, are you using "enhanced"? It
smoothes the fonts.
>
> Cindy
>
> "petros" <keytronic@petros.pl> wrote in message
news:47e9b581$1_2@cnews...
>> This is something that's bothered me to greater or lesser extents over
>> the years, but lately has been a bigger thorn than before. Is there
some
>> setting I can change to smooth the fonts on screen while they're still
>> fonts? As soon as I convert text to curves, it looks really nice (and
>> readable, too...) but as long as they're still a font, it's like,
yuck.
>>
>> The reason this has started to bother me is simple - I downloaded and
am
>> using Safari for any of my web browsing that's text intensive because
>> the text is less tiring to read. I dug into the whole font rendering
>> topic and found out about the difference between Mac and Windows
>> rendering, but that only made what Draw does even more confusing. I've
>> activated ClearType in Windows, but it obviously doesn't affect how
Draw
>> renders fonts on screen. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Petros
>>
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Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:37:21 -040 |
Okay, how about this:
Are you using a CRT or LCD monitor? What resolution do you have it set
to, and do you know what the 'native' resolution is?
It would also help us to know what the point size and the zoom
percentage is. Oh yeah, does this happen with some typefaces and not others?
Vin¢
petros wrote:
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> I am. On my monitor there's little if any improvement till I convert to
> curves. Before I do that, I can't even say what typeface I'm using
> sometimes it can look so bad...
>
> Petros
>
>
> Cindy Vaughan-Sanger wrote:
>> Under "View" in Corel, are you using "enhanced"? It
smoothes the fonts.
>>
>> Cindy
>>
>> "petros" <keytronic@petros.pl> wrote in message
>> news:47e9b581$1_2@cnews...
>>> This is something that's bothered me to greater or lesser extents
>>> over the years, but lately has been a bigger thorn than before. Is
>>> there some setting I can change to smooth the fonts on screen while
>>> they're still fonts? As soon as I convert text to curves, it looks
>>> really nice (and readable, too...) but as long as they're still a
>>> font, it's like, yuck.
>>>
>>> The reason this has started to bother me is simple - I downloaded
and
>>> am using Safari for any of my web browsing that's text intensive
>>> because the text is less tiring to read. I dug into the whole font
>>> rendering topic and found out about the difference between Mac and
>>> Windows rendering, but that only made what Draw does even more
>>> confusing. I've activated ClearType in Windows, but it obviously
>>> doesn't affect how Draw renders fonts on screen. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Petros
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Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:27:30 -040 |
NEC MultiSync LCD1990SXi at 1280x1024 native, ClearType active.
Here's a screen shot of four typefaces at 12 points and a little larger.
First rows are fonts, second rows are same converted to curves. I have
100% set to render at 1:1, so that's why it shows 75% in the zoom box.
It does seem like the NimbusSanP (T1 font) that I use as default renders
worse than the others, so that might be it. It also seems like sans
serif render worse than the serif fonts. Still, it would be nice if the
smoothing were better.
Petros
Vin¢ wrote:
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> Okay, how about this:
>
> Are you using a CRT or LCD monitor? What resolution do you have it set
> to, and do you know what the 'native' resolution is?
>
> It would also help us to know what the point size and the zoom
> percentage is. Oh yeah, does this happen with some typefaces and not
> others?
>
> Vin¢
>
> petros wrote:
>>
>> I am. On my monitor there's little if any improvement till I convert
>> to curves. Before I do that, I can't even say what typeface I'm using
>> sometimes it can look so bad...
>>
>> Petros
>>
>>
>> Cindy Vaughan-Sanger wrote:
>>> Under "View" in Corel, are you using
"enhanced"? It smoothes the fonts.
>>>
>>> Cindy
>>>
>>> "petros" <keytronic@petros.pl> wrote in message
>>> news:47e9b581$1_2@cnews...
>>>> This is something that's bothered me to greater or lesser
extents
>>>> over the years, but lately has been a bigger thorn than before.
Is
>>>> there some setting I can change to smooth the fonts on screen
while
>>>> they're still fonts? As soon as I convert text to curves, it
looks
>>>> really nice (and readable, too...) but as long as they're still
a
>>>> font, it's like, yuck.
>>>>
>>>> The reason this has started to bother me is simple - I
downloaded
>>>> and am using Safari for any of my web browsing that's text
intensive
>>>> because the text is less tiring to read. I dug into the whole
font
>>>> rendering topic and found out about the difference between Mac
and
>>>> Windows rendering, but that only made what Draw does even more
>>>> confusing. I've activated ClearType in Windows, but it
obviously
>>>> doesn't affect how Draw renders fonts on screen. Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Petros
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