Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeRo
Anti-aliasing and hinting were developed to deal with true low resolution devices. My point is that a device that has 200 dpi being read at 18 inches these fixes should not be necessary. Holding the PRS-300 2 inches from my eyes I could barely make out a hint of stair-casing at the smallest font in an LRF document. This was not in ideal lighting conditions - I'll try it in sunlight at some point.
|
Ah! I didn't notice before that you have a PRS-300... If I remember correctly, the 300 packs the same number of pixels into a slightly smaller screen than the 500/505. Maybe the increased pixel density is just enough to make you happy. I'll have to try one in the store.
But on my machine, small font sizes are bothersome. Because of the anti-aliasing, some letters are composed almost entirely of grey pixels with few black ones. Also, if you look at places where glyphs come to a point, they look annoyingly blocky (e.g. the bottom of straight quotes). You can also see sometimes that the upright portion of some letters has a very obvious grey edge. Finally, the thinner diagonal on letters like v, w, and y looks pretty stair-stepped to me.
If you create a book using a delicate font, this is even more apparent.