Just a suggestion about techniques - make sure you use some sort of
interpolation filtering hint when you try to rotate an image like this.
The default algorithm NEAREST_NEIGHBOR is the fastest, but you'd get
better quality with BILINEAR filtering. I'm not sure that BICUBIC
(slower still) would be necessary for this application.
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/RenderingHints.html#KEY_INTERPOLATION
Having said that, I wouldn't expect any better quality than rotating the
outline (but YMMV), so if you are happy with the current solution of
rotating the outline (quality and performance) then I'd say stick with
that...
...jim
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I think this is a consequence of trying to position
each glyph at the
closest point its projection
on to the theoretical baseline on a relatively
low-res device.
Indeed. I get very nicely rendered characters with odd looking positions.
printer resolutions. Whilst rotating an image would
help the baseline I
don't think you'd be
happy with the appearance of the glyphs.
True. I wrote a little test program and the glyph quality is worse. Overall the
effect is a little better, at least to my eyes. I was going to try it with a
higher resolution image, but will instead try ...
Your best option for quality is likely to get the
outline of the text
Thanks very much I will try that approach.
Mark
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