[reportlab-users] Font Anti-Aliasing

Sebastian Ware sebastian at urbantalk.se
Tue Oct 9 07:28:32 EDT 2007


Maybe if you use a bitmap font?

Mvh Sebastian

9 okt 2007 kl. 00.15 skrev Andy Robinson:


> On 08/10/2007, Nizam Sayeed <ibnameen at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Hello all,

>>

>> Is there a way to turn off anti-aliasing for fonts in ReportLab when

>> generating charts? Thanks.

>

> I don't think so. It's a fundamental feature of the rendering engine

> - it's drawing each character as a curve in an abstract space, not

> trying to align characters with the "pixel grid". As far as our

> software is concerned there is no pixel grid, you just happened to ask

> it for a bitmap.

>

> Best Regards,

>

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