On Aug 8 16:28, Warren Young wrote: > On 8/8/2011 2:43 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > If you have a way to create a C which > >is not handdrawn *and* stands out, I would very much like to see it. > > That's why I quoted Andy: increasing the stroke width can help. By > starting with a much thicker outer stroke, you end up with a > brighter yet still AA'd outline. > > You can also play with (x, y) placement and the sampling algorithm. > > An 8 px white stroke on black scaled 256:32 (8x) will not > necessarily end up a single 1 px white stroke on black. Given a > case where that happens, then shifting the line 4 px from that > position, downsampling can give you two 50% gray lines side by side > if the algorithm interprets the source image as having half the line > on one side of the pixel boundary and half on the other. Then if > you leave the line where it is, 4 px "off" optimal for one algorithm > but use a different sampling algorithm, you might get good results > again.
Erm... say that again? Here's where you're losing me. I don't even know how to make the stroke thicker unless it would be a big, square block. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat