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Re: Best text rendering settings?
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Re: Best text rendering settings?


  • Subject: Re: Best text rendering settings?
  • From: Gideon King <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 03:42:13 +1000

Sometimes the layer is transparent, and sometimes it will have a color drawn behind where the text is (not a background color for the layer though). The superlayer is transparent, but behind that is an opaque view.

Even where there is an opaque fill drawn behind the text on the layer, it's still not quite as good as a text view.

Here's an image: http://flic.kr/p/9fzCPV

The one on the left with the box around it has a white filled path behind it on the layer. The middle one has no background drawn on the layer. The one on the right is an ordinary text view. All done in Arial 17pt.

On 05/02/2011, at 2:40 AM, David Duncan wrote:

> On Feb 4, 2011, at 5:15 AM, Gideon King wrote:
>
>> The output never looks as good as plain old text in a text view.
>
>
> Do you draw a background for your text? If you are drawing over transparency then sub-pixel antialiasing doesn't work and when you do the final composite you see text that doesn't look as good as text drawn over a background.
> --
> David Duncan
>

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