Hi,
I could just barely notice the difference between those images - and only
because Ben pointed out some examples. What is the performance difference
for this? I expect its low...
Thanks,
Dave
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Merged on master.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ben.
>
>
> On 22/04/17 21:18, Andrea Aime wrote:
> > Pull request here:
> >
> > https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/1561
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andrea
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> +1 to enable by default. For good examples, have a look at Vesy St and
> >> West St and Park Pl West on the left. W/e and V/e pairs are some of
> those
> >> most in need of kerning, and the improvement looks great to me.
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Ben.
> >>
> >> On 27/03/17 03:49, Andrea Aime wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> a question on stackoverflow [1] prompted me to look into font kerning
> in
> >>> java. After a few
> >>> attempts I managed to enable it and imho indeed the result looks
> >>> prettier... but one has to
> >>> look carefully :-)
> >>>
> >>> I've created a before and after example, with a "difference" image
> >>> highlighting in red what
> >>> changed (so that you don't get lost looking for the differences, mind,
> >>> some
> >>> labels changed just slightly,
> >>> others in a more visible way):
> >>>
> >>> - Before:
> >>> http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/kerning/roads_no_kerning.png
> >>> - After: http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/kerning/roads_kerning.
> png
> >>> - Difference: http://demo.geo-solutions.it/s
> >>> hare/kerning/difference.png
> >>>
> >>> I still need to run a few extra tests (and check how much performance
> >>> we're
> >>> going to lose
> >>> by enabling it, as it requires a more complex layout), but given the
> >>> results, I'd be inclined
> >>> to enable this by default, with a vendor option to turn it off in case
> >>> someone finds issues with it.
> >>>
> >>> Opinions?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Andrea
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> >>> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/233346/kerning-in-
> geoserver-labels
> >>>
> >>>
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