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Old 07-03-2011, 06:53 PM   #46
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Look at the the two attachments. Same font, one is a nook STR and the other is a 950.

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Now the nook has noticeably thinner lines. Now look at the r and notice how the overhang is too thin. The top of the m is thin. One the 950, the font has more uniform strokes. It is the same font, but when actually comparing them on a nook and a 650 directly, they almost look like they could be two different fonts or different font weights.
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Having a really poor font rendering engine is a major issue. So for right now, the nook is a no-go (IMHO) since it renders very poorly.
If you base this statement on a r that is lighter on the nook than on the sony, on a font that it's even not built-in on the reader I think that you are exaggerating.

But you made the point, now I understood what you mean as poor rendering.
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Old 07-03-2011, 08:37 PM   #47
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I was just pointing out some of the letters that are obviously noticeable. It would have been silly to point out all the letters that have thin strokes.

I'm guessing that the fonts used in the font menu were chosen because they render well enough. But I chose to look at Charis as that is the most commonly used embedded font by publishers. Most of the Star Wars eBooks are using Charis and if it's not going to render well, it's not going to be all that good a reading experience. Sure you can change the font, but you also have to change the margins and maybe the line spacing. You cannot just change just the font without changing other setting you may not want to change.
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What you means as "it so poor"? I do not see poor rendering.
I have taken some pictures of my nook dispaying caecilia font, calibri font and FBReader app. The pictures have shadows and are not 100% on focus, but still the rendering look fine, you consider this so poor?
What are you using to show that bar at the bottom of the reader?

Update: never mind, I see it is not the default reader.
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Old 07-05-2011, 08:58 AM   #49
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The 950 looks terrible! Look at all those artifacts around the words. And it can't even do right justification. Definitely a show stopper.
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Old 07-05-2011, 11:36 AM   #50
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The 950 looks terrible! Look at all those artifacts around the words. And it can't even do right justification. Definitely a show stopper.
What the hell are you talking about? Are you stoned or drunk?
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What the hell are you talking about? Are you stoned or drunk?
I think you missed the sarcasm...
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What the hell are you talking about? Are you stoned or drunk?
Look at the lines that end with "way" and "was" (for the 950 capture), they are clearly not right aligned.

And there are all kinds of compression artifacts in the capture for 950.

Are you blind? Are you sure your wearing your glasses?
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Old 07-05-2011, 02:26 PM   #53
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Look at the lines that end with "way" and "was" (for the 950 capture), they are clearly not right aligned.

And there are all kinds of compression artifacts in the capture for 950.

Are you blind? Are you sure your wearing your glasses?
That is how ADE does it so lines that have a very small overhang like that don't end up with large gaps between words. It's not just t950 that does it. Desktop ADE does it as well. The compression artifacts are the screen grab, not the 950. The screen grab is done with PRS+ which is not from Sony. So out of the box, the 950 does not do any screen grabs.
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That is how ADE does it so lines that have a very small overhang like that don't end up with large gaps between words. It's not just t950 that does it. Desktop ADE does it as well. The compression artifacts are the screen grab, not the 950. The screen grab is done with PRS+ which is not from Sony. So out of the box, the 950 does not do any screen grabs.
So, first you say "Are you stoned or drunk?", and then you make excuses.
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So, first you say "Are you stoned or drunk?", and then you make excuses.
I'm not making excuses. I'm saying what is. If whatever you think is wrong, is a Sony issue, it's not. That is all I was trying to point out.
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I can't believe people are complaining about this. I was expecting to see horrible looking text. I can hardly notice anything and I have better than perfect vision.
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I can't believe people are complaining about this. I was expecting to see horrible looking text. I can hardly notice anything and I have better than perfect vision.
It's not bad, it is just that it could be better, particularly with smaller text sizes. As I said earlier in this thread, if you press the 'n' (nook) key twice, the text that redraws at the bottom line or two of the page is noticeably sharper than the text on the rest of the page. If they could achieve that level of sharpness consistently it would be nice to have.
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I can't believe people are complaining about this. I was expecting to see horrible looking text. I can hardly notice anything and I have better than perfect vision.
Depends on the font. Try a couple of the other fonts, it's a little more disconcerting.

I found it annoying me on Caecilla but not on my current one (Malabar).
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Depends on the font. Try a couple of the other fonts, it's a little more disconcerting.

I found it annoying me on Caecilla but not on my current one (Malabar).
or just find a font you're happy with and stop being masochistic about it.

Egads the length's people go to just to complain and be unhappy.
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...I can hardly notice anything and I have better than perfect vision.
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