[Image-SIG] text render quality (jpg attached)
Christopher Barker
Chris.Barker at noaa.gov
Wed Nov 28 21:09:10 CET 2007
Scott Frankel wrote:
> Point well taken regarding jpeg. Nonetheless, my text is still looking
> pretty funky. Any other suggestions
I've repeated your experiment, and yes, it doesn't look so good. I think
the issue is that that is a very skinny font, and rendering it with
anti-aliasing at 72dpi (which it appears is the default -- I can't find
anything in the PIL docs about setting dpi, or what unit the "size" of a
font is given in). Some systems use tricks to line up the lines of a
font with the pixels to make this sort of thing look better (MS
ClearType). Here's a bit of discussion about that:
http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html
It looks like PIL isn't trying to do anything special in that regard.
You might try the agg renderer -- I don't know if it's different, but it
might be.
I'd use a thicker font, it looks much better -- see enclosure.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import Image
from PIL import Image
import ImageFont
img = Image.new("RGB", (512, 256), (128, 128, 128))
import ImageDraw
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
font = ImageFont.truetype("/Library/Fonts/HelveticaNeue.dfont", 24,
encoding="armn")
draw.text((10, 10), "hello world", font=font)
font = ImageFont.truetype("/Library/Fonts/HelveticaCY.dfont", 24,
encoding="armn")
draw.text((10, 40), "hello world", font=font)
print "size of X is:", font.getsize("X")
img.save("foo.png", "PNG")
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