Whenever I try to use the FreeSans font with SDL,
either through PyGame or Soya, I get disappointing
results. The characters come out slightly
higglety-pigglety -- randomly displaced up or down
a pixel or so from the baseline.
Something about the calculation of the font height
seems to be off, too.
The fonts that come with MacOSX don't have these
problems, so the fault doesn't seem to be with SDL
or FreeType.
Has anyone else noticed this? If it's a problem
with the quality of FreeSans, can anyone recommend
a free Helvetica-like font family that doesn't
have this problem?
--
Greg
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Greg Ewing wrote:
Whenever I try to use the FreeSans font with SDL,
either through PyGame or Soya, I get disappointing
results. The characters come out slightly
higglety-pigglety -- randomly displaced up or down
a pixel or so from the baseline.
Something about the calculation of the font height
seems to be off, too.
The fonts that come with MacOSX don't have these
problems, so the fault doesn't seem to be with SDL
or FreeType.
Has anyone else noticed this? If it's a problem
with the quality of FreeSans, can anyone recommend
a free Helvetica-like font family that doesn't
have this problem?
It would depend on how you're displaying them, I would think. I
haven't seen any one-pixel-off errors for FreeSans on the screen at the
same time, but I've seen differences between Windows and Linux. (I
figured it was because of hinting, but didn't investigate.) However,
I'm rendering it with OpenGL textures, so there might be a little
difference.
1. Try increasing the pixel height by 0.5
2. Convert it to a type 1 font and see if the problem remains.
3. See if anyone on the SDL or PyGame lists know anything about it.
Carl Banks
Carl Banks wrote:
Greg Ewing wrote:
The characters come out slightly
higglety-pigglety -- randomly displaced up or down
a pixel or so from the baseline.
It would depend on how you're displaying them, I would think.
I've seen the same thing happen two different ways:
* Rendering with PyGame's font functions
* With Soya, which is using OpenGL textures
Both of these are using FreeType to do the rastering,
I believe.
2. Convert it to a type 1 font and see if the problem remains.
Can FreeType deal with Type 1 fonts? Also, what utility
would I use to do that (preferably on MacOSX).
--
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