[magick-users] Rendering text nicely (OS X)

[David Reitter]

Hi,
I'm trying to use IM to render some text, but I'm not getting  
visually appealing results.
Have a look at the attached screenshot (I hope this mailing list  
supports attachments).

I'm showing the results of

  convert  -size 164x200 xc:white -font ./LucidaGrande.ttf  - 
pointsize 10 -density 72 -draw "text 10,16 'Anthony'" label.png

I've experimented with various density and pointsize settings, but  
I'm not getting the antialiasing that I get in applications (see  
Photoshop on the right hand side and a normal (Carbon) OS X  
application below). With greater font sizes, the result is downright  
ugly.

Is there a way to control antialiasing? How do I get nicely rendered  
fonts?
I've got freetype 6.3.7 and 6.3.8 installed, and IM 6.2.9.

Thanks in advance.

PS.: please cc me in replies.

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