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by cja
2015-01-13T15:01:03-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Monochrome text
Replies: 7
Views: 4115

Re: Monochrome text

Yep. That seems to do the trick. Thanx!
by cja
2015-01-13T08:24:39-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Monochrome text
Replies: 7
Views: 4115

Re: Monochrome text

My thinking to put it 'before' the processing was to enable the rendering step for the text to take into account the output is monochroom. Thereby it could potentially optimize the output taking this into account. For example, in freetype there is "FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO" (1) that impacts the ...
by cja
2015-01-13T07:18:22-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Monochrome text
Replies: 7
Views: 4115

Re: Monochrome text

I do not see a difference when putting -monochrome behind the label option.
Switching dithering off is an improvement.

Thanx!
by cja
2015-01-13T04:42:55-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Monochrome text
Replies: 7
Views: 4115

Monochrome text

I want to create a monochrome bitmap with good quality text on it. Using a bit depth of 8, the text comes out very nicely. Making that into a monochrome bitmap is terrible. Commands I have been using (with variations): convert -background black -fill white -size x30 -density 192 label:"Text" sample ...