Bad Font Alignment

[Perfect Human Interface]

I created a pixel font, but found FS can't seem to render it correctly. It should be pixel-perfect, but it's blurry. Font size is set to 1, no alignment setting, style is "regular." It simply doesn't line up to pixels.

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Not only is the placement of the text off but the spacing is too. So no hope of fixing it by setting x/y with area to float.

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It should be exactly 1 pixel between each character. You can see it's a little wider.

This font renders perfectly in Photoshop, no problem.

Not expecting a fix for this, but I thought I would at least point it out. I'm not sure if this has any real effect on most other fonts. It is kind of a bummer though as it means I can't do what I was hoping to without rendering out all the characters and then writing a code to draw them all out.

[TheOm]

In Ruby you can change the Font Rendering Method.
Use the method setTextRenderingHint with one of the follwing arguments:
"off"
"singleBitPerPixelGridFit" -try this
"singleBitPerPixel" -or this one for your font
"antiAliasGridFit" -I like this one for small font sizes and transparent background when using normal fonts
"antiAlias" -this is the default setting and looks very blurry
"clearTypeGridFit" -this usually looks best with normal fonts but doesn't work if the background is transparent

Here's also an advanced label for quick testing and comparing of these options.

[djbrynte]

Hey mate do this save the fonts. So for example if another guy open my synth if i used font BLABLA. and he doesent have it. Does it still show this font blabla?

[Perfect Human Interface]

In Ruby you can change the Font Rendering Method.

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Hey mate do this save the fonts. So for example if another guy open my synth if i used font BLABLA. and he doesent have it. Does it still show this font blabla?

It'll have to be installed on the machine in order for it to be used in the plugin.

...unless there's a magic Ruby function to load fonts from a folder or stored in a schematic as well.
Actually if you could just install a font from within ruby that might at least let you avoid creating an exe installer.

[Perfect Human Interface]

Hi, bumping the old thread here. I've been putting TheOm's ruby label above to good use. There's an issue though that, consistently, the label will "forget" the vertical alignment setting when the project is reloaded, and ONLY the vertical alignment (even though both vertical and horizontal alignment are being combined into one string format connector). Of course it rights itself if you send it a trigger.

Anyone know how to fix this? Continue to be baffled by Ruby load issues. :S

[TheOm]

Continue to be baffled by Ruby load issues. :S

Sigh.. Indeed, it's really annoying
This can be fixed by adding After Load and After Duplicate.

[Perfect Human Interface]

This can be fixed it by adding After Load and After Duplicate.

Yeah, I was hoping for a more "proper" solution. I'll stick with that until then. Thanks