[PD] ugly font edges on non-black background

Antoine Rousseau antoine at metalu.net
Fri Nov 8 14:02:20 CET 2019


Hi Popesz,
it seems there's something else in your patch that is causing this effect.
As Roman said, a simple [text3d] patch works as expected, see the attached
screenshot.


Le ven. 8 nov. 2019 à 12:29, Csaba Láng <langcsaba at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi Roman,
> I tried many fonts, truefonts behave the same way.
> Check the screenshot:
> [image: uglyfontwithalpha.png]
> I tried all the font sizes from 5 to 100 (20 is default) and play with the
> Z axe to make it smaller, the final effect is the same every time.
>
> Does anyone have a best practice with the fonts on alpha on any background
> than black?
>
> Best,
> Popesz
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 4:58 PM Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I can't reproduce with the help of [text3d].
>>
>> Have you tried using  a TrueType font?
>>
>> Gruss
>> Roman
>>
>> On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 16:32 +0100, Csaba Láng wrote:
>> > Dear list,
>> >
>> > I would like to use [text3d] texts on yellow background but the edge
>> > of the texts are so ugly that I am concerning to use prerendered
>> > images on alpha channel.
>> > Not even mentioning the inside part of the letters/numbers which are
>> > black anyway.
>> > Is there a way to achieve beautiful texts which are on transparent
>> > background?
>> >
>> > Tried with alpha with all the numeric possibilities alpha offers (on
>> > 16 pd crashes) but without any success.
>> >
>> > Please advice!
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Popesz
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