Avoiding Blurred Text on Export

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Avoiding Blurred Text on Export

Postby capnhud » Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:05 am

I have my snap preferences set to snap to grid (bounding box) with a 1px x 1px grid, but each time that I export an image (especially text) it is not crisp how can I fix this?

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Re: Avoiding Blurred Text on Export

Postby microUgly » Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:35 pm

Remember, if you are applying a 1px stroke, you need the object to snap to the middle of the pixel - a 1 px stroke adds 0.5 pixels to the outside and 0.5 px to the inside of the object.

I dare say text blurring will be unavoidable since the characters themselves won't perfectly match a pixel grid.

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Re: Avoiding Blurred Text on Export

Postby capnhud » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:20 pm

I dare say text blurring will be unavoidable since the characters themselves won't perfectly match a pixel grid


This is what I was afraid of. I guess using a raster program would be the way to go then.

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Re: Avoiding Blurred Text on Export

Postby microUgly » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:26 am

capnhud wrote:
I dare say text blurring will be unavoidable since the characters themselves won't perfectly match a pixel grid


This is what I was afraid of. I guess using a raster program would be the way to go then.

Yes and no. In software like Photoshop they let you control the anti-aliasing on fonts. But most fonts still don't line up with the pixel grid so blurring is still evident unless you use a font designed specifically to match the pixel grid.


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