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!
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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momo escribió:
Hi,
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...)
Now that's funny... I actually like GIMP's UI better than Photoshop's, simply because I started doing graphics work with GIMP and not Photoshop, I must be one of the few who don't find Photoshop's UI "intuitive", hehe.
Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote the following on 8/21/2007 2:29 PM:
momo escribió:
Hi,
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...)
Now that's funny... I actually like GIMP's UI better than Photoshop's, simply because I started doing graphics work with GIMP and not Photoshop, I must be one of the few who don't find Photoshop's UI "intuitive", hehe.
shhh...hey...i don't like photoshop's interface either. i prefer gimp's...but i'm too sensitive for a flame war...shhh...
heathenx
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:56:40 -0400 heathenx <heathenx@...155...> wrote:
Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote the following on 8/21/2007 2:29 PM:
momo escribió:
Hi,
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...)
Now that's funny... I actually like GIMP's UI better than Photoshop's, simply because I started doing graphics work with GIMP and not Photoshop, I must be one of the few who don't find Photoshop's UI "intuitive", hehe.
shhh...hey...i don't like photoshop's interface either. i prefer gimp's...but i'm too sensitive for a flame war...shhh...
heathenx
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Eh? Wot? Sorry, I think I dropped of for a few months :)
Using Inkscape has become so 'normal' I don't actually notice the interface any more, the same is true to a lesser extent with the Gimp, whereas I've never even seen Photoshop.
I don't think any computer interface can honestly be described as 'intuitive', with the possible exception of XO. Easy to learn, maybe, depending on what you've already learnt.
On 2007-August-21 , at 21:56 , heathenx wrote:
Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote the following on 8/21/2007 2:29 PM:
momo escribió:
Hi,
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...)
Now that's funny... I actually like GIMP's UI better than Photoshop's, simply because I started doing graphics work with GIMP and not Photoshop, I must be one of the few who don't find Photoshop's UI "intuitive", hehe.
shhh...hey...i don't like photoshop's interface either. i prefer gimp's...but i'm too sensitive for a flame war...shhh...
would it start a flame war if I say I prefer Krita's? ;) ... to bad it uses QT and not gtk!
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:09:17 +0200, jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
shhh...hey...i don't like photoshop's interface either. i prefer gimp's...but i'm too sensitive for a flame war...shhh...
would it start a flame war if I say I prefer Krita's? ;) ... to bad it uses QT and not gtk!
It's not as if we use Gtk/Pango's text antialiasing facilities; as far as I know we currently just generate the text paths and render them directly using Inkscape's regular path renderer.
-mental
Dear People!
1. Anti-aliasing: I wonder if I'm the only one, but when I need to make web-graphics (info-graphics) with small fonts, I find neither Inkscape's AA, not Photoshops' (with all it's options) satisfying. So, what I do is that I use Windows' ClearType tuning. I create a tekst in any program (say: M$Word) and make a screenshot of it and past it in the graphic. It's tedious, but it works...
2. UbuntuStudio and OpenSource Animation Toolkit. Thanks for the reactions! I posted my question accidentally on the list, but as it turns out: all for the better. Elas, I'm stuck to my WinXP machine, so if I'm to work with Ubunto, it must be a live-CD.
3. Flame-juggling. I prefer the Photoshop interface above Gimp. OpenOffice-interface above Word, Inkscape WAY above Illustrator...
Cheers,
Maarten
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heathenx wrote:
Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote the following on 8/21/2007 2:29 PM:
Now that's funny... I actually like GIMP's UI better than Photoshop's, simply because I started doing graphics work with GIMP and not Photoshop, I must be one of the few who don't find Photoshop's UI "intuitive", hehe.
shhh...hey...i don't like photoshop's interface either. i prefer gimp's...but i'm too sensitive for a flame war...shhh...
And if you look at the improved interface of GIMP 2.4 RC1 (soon to get a stable release) you may like it even better
:)
that's possible, it's a question of habit...
Molumen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gian Paolo Mureddu" <thetargos@...155...> To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:29 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Text Anti-aliasing
momo escribió:
Hi,
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...)
Now that's funny... I actually like GIMP's UI better than Photoshop's, simply because I started doing graphics work with GIMP and not Photoshop, I must be one of the few who don't find Photoshop's UI "intuitive", hehe.
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Thanks!
lol, yeah...GIMP isn't the best in my book, but until I can get a machine that can handle the load of running XP under virtualization side by side with my Fedora 7 XSI animation workstation, i'll have to deal with it. But its good to know it can be done, all I need is for it to be either on or off. Clients are sometimes picky about what the comp looks like vs the live site.
Again, thanks for the info!
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 <theproducerv2@...155...> *To:* Inkscape User Community inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net *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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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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On Tuesday, August 21, 2007, 9:05:01 PM, Facundo wrote:
FC> Antialiasing is not always the best option for text. Sometimes it FC> doesn't look good. That's why you have several options to tweak in FC> some other software. It's very different to use antialiasing on a FC> photo, on a curve or drawing and on text. The best rendering of text FC> I've seen is the one on Fireworks and there you have sereval options FC> to tweka antialiasing.
For the several options available in SVG, please see the text-rendering property http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#TextRenderingProperty
optimiseSpeed typically disables antialiasing (it certainly does in Batik, for example).
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Maarten van der Velde -
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momo -
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