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AGS Support => Advanced Technical Forum => Topic started by: InCreator on Thu 06/11/2003 06:51:29

Title: Problematic auto-outlining
Post by: InCreator on Thu 06/11/2003 06:51:29
Font auto-outline feature seems to work badly.

I imported a TTF font (Verdana) for 640x480 res at size of 9 and it become weird and crappy. Auto-outline erased some lines (pixelwide) from several letters, and missed outline from several places. When I tried my game in 320x200, font outline was fine!

I tried same thing with different fonts & sizes and most of them experienced problems. Then again, some didn't.
And some fonts looked alot better in 640x480.
Font sizes more than 10 were almost always buggy.

What's wrong?
Title: Re:Problematic auto-outlining
Post by: Ishmael on Thu 06/11/2003 19:14:54
I belive this has already been spotted... or?
Title: Re:Problematic auto-outlining
Post by: SimSaw on Fri 07/11/2003 14:52:11
So we have to create different font types for each selectable resolution??? Not really great.
Title: Re:Problematic auto-outlining
Post by: edmundito on Fri 07/11/2003 15:45:53
Quote from: SimSaw on Fri 07/11/2003 14:52:11
So we have to create different font types for each selectable resolution??? Not really great.

Maybe you need to select "don't scale up fonts"?
Title: Re:Problematic auto-outlining
Post by: SimSaw on Fri 07/11/2003 16:09:12
But then the font is too small in another resolution. :-(
Title: Re:Problematic auto-outlining
Post by: Pumaman on Fri 07/11/2003 16:57:46
Yes, this is a known issue in beta 2 and will be fixed for the next one.
Title: Re:Problematic auto-outlining
Post by: Paper Carnival on Fri 07/11/2003 19:01:30
Yeah, I was the first one who spotted it... I think
Title: Re:Problematic auto-outlining
Post by: InCreator on Sat 08/11/2003 11:11:57
NetMonkey: Not scale up fonts? Compare:
With Scaled fonts:
http://www.hot.ee/increator/bad1.gif

And without:
http://www.hot.ee/increator/bad2.gif

Hm. Hope CJ notices the difference too and keeps that in mind when fixing the problem.