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Font rendering with borders issue?

Font rendering with borders issue? by Andrew S. Townley
- Re: [shoes] Font rendering with borders issue? by ashbb
  - Re: [shoes] Font rendering with borders issue? by Andrew S. Townley
  - Re: [shoes] Font rendering with borders issue? by Wayne Brissette
  - Re: [shoes] Font rendering with borders issue? by Wayne Brissette

Font rendering with borders issue?

From:: Andrew S. Townley
Date:: 2011-11-21 @ 13:14

Hi Folks,

I've been noticing some issues with the way fonts are rendered different 
with or without borders.  If I put a border around a para, it looks like 
the text has been turned into a bitmap and then given a border.  The fonts
are extremely pixelated on OSX, but I don't know if this is the case on 
other platforms.

Without borders, the fonts render as expected.

Any ideas/thoughts?  Known issue?  Easy fix? ;)

Cheers,

ast
--
Andrew S. Townley <ast@atownley.org>
http://atownley.org

Re: [shoes] Font rendering with borders issue?

From:: ashbb
Date:: 2011-11-21 @ 14:16

Hi Andrew,

I ran the following snippet with Shoes 3 on Windows 7 and got this:
http://www.rin-shun.com/tmp/with_or_withot_border.png

Shoes.app do
  stack width: 150 do
    border red, strokewidth: 10
    banner 'hello'
  end
  stack width: 150 do
    banner 'hello'
  end
end

There seems no different, though...

ashbb

Re: [shoes] Font rendering with borders issue?

From:: Andrew S. Townley
Date:: 2011-11-21 @ 14:50

Hi,

Interesting.  Look what happens when you reverse the order: 
http://atownley.org/files/fonts.png

#! /usr/bin/env open -a Shoes.app
Shoes.app do
  stack width: 150 do
    banner 'hello'
  end
  stack width: 150 do
    border red, strokewidth: 10
    banner 'hello'
  end
end

Was driving me bonkers for a few minutes because I couldn't figure out 
what was actually happening, but then I noticed I wasn't trying to do both
in the same app.

Seems like the anti-aliasing is lost when the border is drawn.

Thanks for the verification on Windows.  I'm guessing it happens there as 
well, although arguably the non-anti-aliased fonts look a bit better than 
on OSX.

Cheers,

ast

On 21 Nov 2011, at 2:16 PM, ashbb wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I ran the following snippet with Shoes 3 on Windows 7 and got this: 
http://www.rin-shun.com/tmp/with_or_withot_border.png
> 
> Shoes.app do
>   stack width: 150 do
>     border red, strokewidth: 10
>     banner 'hello'
>   end
>   stack width: 150 do
>     banner 'hello'
>   end
> end
> 
> There seems no different, though...
> 
> ashbb

--
Andrew S. Townley <ast@atownley.org>
http://atownley.org

Re: [shoes] Font rendering with borders issue?

From:: Wayne Brissette
Date:: 2011-11-21 @ 14:39

(sorry about the HTML previously)...

that would mirror what I see in Mac OS X. 


http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6035/6376698013_4a4897e954_o.png?_sm_au_=iVVRkDNJ0t8LB32j


Wayne

Re: [shoes] Font rendering with borders issue?

From:: Wayne Brissette
Date:: 2011-11-21 @ 14:36

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color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">That would 
mirror what I see in Mac OS X. </font></font></font><div><font 
color="#000000"><font size="2"><font 
face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font 
color="#000000"><font size="2"><font 
face="arial,sans-serif">http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6035/6376698013_4a4897e954_o.png?_sm_au_=iVVRkDNJ0t8LB32j</font></font></font></div><div><font
color="#000000"><font size="2"><font 
face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font 
color="#000000"><font size="2"><font 
face="arial,sans-serif">Wayne</font></font></font></div><div><font 
color="#000000"><font size="2"><font 
face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><blockquote 
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px 
solid">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: ashbb <ashbbb@gmail.com>
<br>Sent: Nov 21, 2011 8:16 AM
<br>To: shoes@librelist.com
<br>Subject: Re: [shoes] Font rendering with borders issue?

<br><br>Hi Andrew,<br><br>I ran the following snippet with Shoes 3 on 
Windows 7 and got this: <a target="_blank" 
href="http://www.rin-shun.com/tmp/with_or_withot_border.png">http://www.rin-shun.com/tmp/with_or_withot_border.png</a><br><br>Shoes.app
do<br>
  stack width: 150 do<br>    border red, strokewidth: 
10<br>    banner 'hello'<br>  end<br>  stack 
width: 150 do<br>    banner 'hello'<br>  
end<br>end<br><br>There seems no different, though...<br><br>ashbb<br>
</ashbbb@gmail.com></blockquote></div></body>