[reportlab-users] Font Anti-Aliasing

Nizam Sayeed ibnameen at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 11:35:52 EDT 2007


Ah, okay. I need to try that out. Would you happen to have some example code
of how to import a bitmap file into ReportLab?

On 10/9/07, Sebastian Ware <sebastian at urbantalk.se> wrote:

>

> 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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