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

[David Reitter]

On 18 Dec 2006, at 00:15, omicronpersei8 at imagemagick.org wrote:

>> Yes, it is installed.
>
> There is an option in Freetype to turn on Apple hinting which is  
> turned off
> by default.  We suspect if you set this option in the Freetype  
> config file and
> rebuild/reinstall Freetype you will get acceptable results.

OK, things are a bit better now. (I also had to set   
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib to pick up freetype in the first  
place.)

Unfortunately, the text still doesn't look good:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/dreitter/im-rendering-16pt.png

The normal rendering (good) on the left, IM's output on the right.
In smaller font sizes, it's fairly clear that the text appear much  
too "thin".