Re: Re: Antialiasing
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- Subject: [mg76759] Re: [mg76698] Re: Antialiasing
- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 04:45:51 -0400 (EDT)
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On the other hand, post script or pdf graphics that are exported may be viewed in an anti-aliasing renderer (such as adobe acrobat in the case of pdfs). On 5/26/07, Szabolcs <szhorvat at gmail.com> wrote: > dimitris wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Is it possible to get the effect of Antialiasing of version 6 (as I > > saw here: > > http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Antialiasing.html ) > > > > in version 5.2? > > > > Thanks a lot! > > Dimitris > > > > > > This is one solution: > > http://members.wri.com/jeffb/visualization/aa2.shtml > > It is slow, consumes a lot of memory and produces bitmap images that > cannot be resized [without quality loss]. Because of the way Mathematica > scales graphics (changes ImageSize, not ImageResolution), this approach > results in all objects whose size was specified in absolute units being > shrunk by a factor of 4. (Most notably it affects line widths and font > sizes.) > > An alternative solution is to use GhostScript as an external PostScript > rasteriser, import the bitmap image produced by it and display the image > in the notebook. But this also produces unresizable bitmaps. > > I am also curious if it is possible to get the Mathematica 5.2 Front > End to use a different PostScript interpreter than the default one. Is > it possible to extend the Front End this way? I guess the answer is no > because I already asked this in a previous post and got no reply. > > Szabolcs > > -- http://chris.chiasson.name/
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- Re: Antialiasing
- From: Szabolcs <szhorvat@gmail.com>
- Re: Antialiasing