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Glyph outlines artifacted when rendering Type 1 fonts on OS X.

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Andrey Seryukov wrote:
> 
> Here's a problem. We have a Type 1 font from high quality font set that looks 
> different on screen and on exported page. The difference is rather peculiar and 
> can be described as "round shapes become more like a diamond". Many if not all 
> gplyphs that have round portions are affected. I can e-mail and/or attach a 
> sample screenshot or PDF file.
> 
> Is this a known effect?


I've reported a problem to Apple about a similar problem back in January
but it hasn't been fixed so far. The bug id is 4424164, "J2SE50R4DP5
Quartz: TYPE1 fonts not rendered correctly"

They fixed two other font problems I reported earlier, one related to
Type 1, the other to the fontpath but this bug has been in their bug
database for a while now...


In my case, disabling Quartz was the solution to get the rendering done
correctly.

Try using -Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=false to see if it solves your
problem. Doing so means that the same rendering engine used on Windows
and Linux will be used instead of the Apple specific code.



Xavier

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Brittany Software, Inc.
<xavier (at) brittanysoftware.com>

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