[Image-SIG] text render quality (jpg attached)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Wed Nov 28 20:50:41 CET 2007


Scott Frankel wrote:

> One more question about text:  Is there a way to increase text render 
> quality?
> 
> I haven't seen any hinting, anti-aliasing, or quality settings in the 
> documentation for font objects.  Are there any tricks for cheating 
> better quality out of text renders?
> 
> I'm attaching an image with a PIL text render on the left and a Shake 
> text render on the right.  They both use the same font.

I don't know what "Shake" is, but if those are based on exactly the same 
font file, it looks like a bug in Freetype.

Can you mail me a copy of the TTF file so I can double check this on 
another build/platform?

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