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ashkulz · 04-27-2007, 12:42 PM

Uhm, I don't have access to a Windows PC at home ... so if you could post some screenshots I'd be grateful. But yes, the fonts do look a bit ragged ... what happens is that I render at 300dpi (anti-aliased), perform dilation at that resolution and then reduce the size. Now, as a result of this anti-aliasing happens with the reduced image, which is bad because when you downsample it to 4 colors you can get "gaps" where the color information is lost due to the 2-bit grayscale limitation. As far as I know, even RasterFarian has pretty much the same output. Can you try with that and see how good the result is?

BTW, can you try again with 1.7? I replaced imagemagick with pngnq, this may give better output...

04-27-2007, 12:42 PM	#19
ashkulz Addict Posts: 350 Karma: 705 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Kindle 1/REB 1200	Uhm, I don't have access to a Windows PC at home ... so if you could post some screenshots I'd be grateful. But yes, the fonts do look a bit ragged ... what happens is that I render at 300dpi (anti-aliased), perform dilation at that resolution and then reduce the size. Now, as a result of this anti-aliasing happens with the reduced image, which is bad because when you downsample it to 4 colors you can get "gaps" where the color information is lost due to the 2-bit grayscale limitation. As far as I know, even RasterFarian has pretty much the same output. Can you try with that and see how good the result is? BTW, can you try again with 1.7? I replaced imagemagick with pngnq, this may give better output... Last edited by ashkulz; 04-27-2007 at 12:49 PM.