[Qgis-developer] Re: Fonts in map composer

[Steven Bell]

I've observed the character spacing issue before.  My slightly-educated
guess is that it's a Qt font-rendering deficiency related to using really
small fonts (similar to the font-garbling issue) - as far as I know, the
drawing code is using all floating-point precision.
Steven



> Marco,
>
> First, thanks for all the wonderful improvements to the map composer.
> This is now quite stable and usable for production quality maps.
>
> One of the last remaining issues is the quality of fonts in printed
> maps. Here ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/67875808@N00/2979503270/ )
> are sample outputs using qgis and mapserver. Note the fonts and buffer
> are antialiased in mapserver (right), but not in qgis (left). This
> makes labels for small font sizes quite unattractive. Also, note that
> the characters are not spaced evenly.
>
> Is there a way to have antialiasing available for all font sizes? (Is
> there a cutoff size for antialiased fonts?) Both maps use Arial, a
> standard TrueType font on my system (Mac OS X). I had to select font
> size 8 in qgis (yet it is still too large); mapserver is using a
> larger size (font size 12). I tried with a larger canvas and larger
> fonts, but things did not improve a great deal and the file size and
> computation time grew considerably.
>
> If you have any insights or ideas on this, I'd love to hear them.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
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