[vtkusers] Re: vtkTextActors very fuzzy with CVS version

[Mark Wyszomierski]

Hmm I wonder why it was fixed when it was not broke. I will try the
work around for now. Thanks for your suggestions, I appreciate them,

Mark

On 2/5/07, Goodwin Lawlor <goodwin.lawlor at ucd.ie> wrote:
> Dean Inglis wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > I have the same problem  (Borland
> > builds running on Win2k, WinXP running NVIDIA
> > cards).  I think this started happening with the switch to
> > using vtkImageMapper instead of vtkTextMapper within
> > vkTextActor (.h revision 1.8, .cxx rev 1.23).
> > A workaround is to use a vtkActor2D/vtkTextMapper pair,
> > but this cannot be done for certain vtk classes
> > that maintain a vkTextActor ivar (e.g., vtkAxesActor).
> > I don't know the nuts & bolts of vtk text actors/mappers,
> > so can't offer any insight on how to fix this.
> >
> > Dean
>
> Hi Dean and Mark,
>
> I notice this with vtkAxesActor too.
>
> I looked back over the CVS logs for vtkTextActor since 5.0 and it looks
> like its that change alright (r1.30). vtkImageMapper isn't used though-
> the font is rendered into a vtkImageData buffer which is used to texture
> a rectangle... this allows text to be rotated.
>
> The font size isn't always working either...
>
> Goodwin
>
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