Andrew wrote: > --- Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Andrew Dunbar wrote: > > > > In the end we have to place glyphs in the screen at > > integral values. The > > only way to get close on screen to what will be > > printed is the adjust EACH > > glyph to be within 0.5 pixels of where it would be > > on a high resolution > > device. This is what Joaquin is arguing for and what > > I agree with. > > The problem I was thinking of is with Arabic where all > letters are supposed to join up exactly is we can > never let a visible one pixel gap creep in here. > Also, if two antialiased glyphs overlap by one pixel > we need to ensure that the antialising is done after > the overlapping or we will end up with artifacts. > Perhaps these might be too tiny to notice - I couldn't > say in advance.
I don't think that Arabic will be a problem. Usually glyphs get close when you place them using linearly scaled distances, so you will not get any gap. For the antialiasing, I don't think that it will be a problem either, but we'll see :) Cheers,
