On Wednesday 28 August 2002 10:30 pm, Ken Deeter (Kentarou SHINOHARA) wrote: | > I have very similar concerns for scaling Kanji bitmaps in mozilla | > but the Japanese and Chinese useres I've talked to report that | > they really like it and I have not had any negative reports. | | I've played with this feature in mozilla as well, and I tend to like it | better than the fuzziness that freetype produces. (tho arguably mozilla | and freetype both produce fuzzy output)
Can you provide screenshots supporting this? Together with testing details? | | I think it may have to do with the fact that for kanji characters, | proportion and uniformity are more important than just line clarity. | | Ie if a character has three parallel horizontal lines that are supposed to | be of equal "thickness", it seems better that these three lines are | uniformly smudged rather than one being noticeably thicker or thinner than | the other two. | | I think bitmap scaling tends to preserve the uniformity and proportion | that exists in the high res versions, whereas rendering outlines doesn't | always maintain these characteristics. Which outlines do you render to? Hinted or non-hinted? PS Type1 or TrueType? | | (sorry this is hand waving at best... don't quote me, its just my theory | for now) | | Also, nautilus1's antialiased rendering of japanese characters was quite | legible as well, if I recall correctly. I don't know what they did | there.. | | The only other thing that worries me tho, is that for really small | sizes, like 8 pix, kanji characters are often heavily distorted to fit | into that space, sometimes so much so that i don't think any amount of | hinting can replicate. And at this size, scaling bitmaps down would just | produce a big gray dot i would suspect. Does someone use kanji at 8px? Even Latin alphabet is not very easy to read at 8px. | _______________________________________________ | Fonts mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
