Re: [android-developers] Strange effects on Android's truetype decoder

2011-08-04 Thread David Turner
That's perfectly normal, text is hinted in the vertical direction by default on Android to make it more legible (and reduce glyph cache memory pressure). On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:06 PM, guich wrote: > Hi, > > If you call Paint.setTextSize and set it to a wide range, like 7 to > 40, you will note

[android-developers] Strange effects on Android's truetype decoder

2011-08-03 Thread guich
Hi, If you call Paint.setTextSize and set it to a wide range, like 7 to 40, you will note that the transition is not smooth. Sometimes it repeats the same height. The code below illustrates what i mean (testing on an emulator for android 2.2): Paint paint = new Paint(); paint.setAnti