Re: strokeadjust:ing by default

[Adrian Robert]

On Jan 18, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Alexander Malmberg wrote:

> Recently, I reworked back-art's handling of strokeadjust. In 
> postscript. strokeadjusting will move points of paths around a bit to 
> try to line things up with device pixels and make line widths seem 
> more uniform. In back-art, I do things that are similar in spirit: 
> adjust points on paths, line widths, and dash offsets to make the 
> results sharper and clearer. The drawback of this is that by moving 
> things around, you distort the paths a bit.
>
> As an example, here a are a bunch of lines without strokeadjusting:
>
> http://web.telia.com/~u42308495/alex/backart/lines_strokeadjust_off.png
>
> and with:
>
> http://web.telia.com/~u42308495/alex/backart/lines_strokeadjust_on.png

It looks like the strokeadjust_on case definitely lets you see more 
detail on a resolution-limited display.  Very nice.  Do you have any 
comparable shots for diagonal lines and curves (closely-spaced or 
otherwise)?  Also what about thicker lines, or would we not see a 
difference for those?  And what about more ordinary application window 
/ GUI types of situations?  Would we see a difference here?