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small font sizes yield oversimplified glyph shapes
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Description
Loading Futura at font size 10 and simplify=0 yields oversimplified chars in a pdf render. I'm not sure if there's a way to fix this if the fonts are small.
A workaround is to load the font at a larger size, say 40, then scale down by 0.25 when drawing.
The font below is a zoom of the pdf export using font size 10. The font above is Futura at font size 144 by comparison.
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Research direction
Reproduce the PDF rendering case described in the issue: load Futura at font size 10 with simplify=0 and compare its glyph shapes with the larger-size rendering. Investigate the font-rendering path used for PDF export; done means small-size glyphs are no longer oversimplified without relying on the larger-size-and-scale workaround.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- computer-graphics
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100