Tobias, I think what is happening is that Adobe is using font hinting to handle small font sizes and we are not. Therefore, they are giving a better result at small font sizes. The best option is to rasterize with antialiasing on, but I do not know of any good way to reduce the blurring that this causes.
Vincent. Tobias Mogestad wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having difficulties producing readable texts with lower font-sizes > while using the text-rendering option optimizeSpeed (to switch off anti- > alias). > > Rendering the SVG in the Adobe viewer (2.0) the text looks fine down > to font-sizes as low as 8 pts, but when rasterized through batik (tried > it with version 1.0b and 1.1) or when viewing the SVG through batik's > SVG browser the results are pretty poor. > I'm running JVM 1.3.1 and I've tested it under both Windows and Linux. > I've even tried using the font converter and included the font itself > in the SVG, but with identical results. > > Are there any way of improving the quality of the rasterized text and > make it look more like Adobe's interpretation of the font? > Or must anti-alias be switched on for the rasterizer to produce better > looking text? > And in that case, are there any way of minimizing the blur effect it has? > > I've attached two png images that illustrates the problem: > adobe20.png - Screenshot from Adobe's viewer. > batik11.png - Produced by the batik rasterizer. > > Below is the SVG code behind the images: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> > <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20000303 Stylable//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/03/WD-SVG-20000303/DTD/svg-20000303-stylable.dtd"; > > > <svg xml:space="preserve" width="300" height="200"> > <defs> > <style type="text/css" xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ > text { > font-family:Arial; > text-rendering:optimizeSpeed; > } > ]]></style> > </defs> > <text x="10" y="30" font-size="18pt">Example Text Font Size 18</text> > <text x="10" y="60" font-size="14pt">Example Text Font Size 14</text> > <text x="10" y="90" font-size="12pt">Example Text Font Size 12</text> > <text x="10" y="110" font-size="10pt">Example Text Font Size 10</text> > <text x="10" y="130" font-size="9pt">Example Text Font Size 9</text> > <text x="10" y="145" font-size="8pt">Example Text Font Size 8</text> > <text x="10" y="160" font-size="6pt">Example Text Font Size 6</text> > </svg> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Grateful for any advice and/or explanation! > > /Tobias Mogestad > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: adobe20.png > adobe20.png Type: PNG Image (image/png) > Encoding: base64 > > Name: batik11.png > batik11.png Type: PNG Image (image/png) > Encoding: base64 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
