Antialiasing is not always the best option for text. Sometimes it doesn't look good. That's why you have several options to tweak in some other software. It's very different to use antialiasing on a photo, on a curve or drawing and on text. The best rendering of text I've seen is the one on Fireworks and there you have sereval options to tweka antialiasing. With small or thin fonts the text is easier to read and looks cleaner without antialiasing at all.
On 8/21/07, momo <momo@...1935...> wrote:
Hi,
AFAIK Inkscape doesn't have the possibility to switch off text antialiasing, and I didn't hear of something like that planned for the future.
In GIMP (brrrrrr... what an awful interface!!!!), the text tool has a switch that toggles on/off antialiasing of text (no selection of the antialiasing type like in photoshop though...). See an attached screenshot of a text with antialiasing turned off and on.
IMO, the possibility to switch off antialiasing will be almost obsolete in the near future (at least in the field of webdesign), because in Vista and MacOSX the fonts are antialiased. Win98, 2K and XP users will switch to Vista with time, so more than 90% of the users will see antialiased text in their browsers in the next 3-4 years...
Molumen
----- Original Message ----- From: Joseph Pender To: Inkscape User Community Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:19 PM Subject: [Inkscape-user] Text Anti-aliasing
Hello!
In Adobe Photoshop, you are able to adjust the text anti-aliasing level (strong, smooth, crisp, none). Useful for simulating web page designs (in which live text is not AAed).
Does something like that exsist in Inkscape now or under construction in any future build?
(if GIMP or other programs can do it, feel free to mention that to me)
Thank you!
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