Font Smoothing & Image Scaling

[Zigzag]

Hi Echo,

I just wanted to say that I've really enjoyed reading this thread.

Thanks for the entertainment (and good questions and comments), Zig.

We aim to please.

In fact I'm putting together a little show I hope will reach Broadway and
the West End.
It's entitled "The PowerPoint Monologues" and will have me sat on a chair
(with whisky stand) inanely waffling to a large audience. A large screen up
and behind me can be controlled by remote.

Bit like a presentation really.

mmmm....wonder if Prof. Tufte will accept an invitation as guest speaker? He
can give the remote to a member of the audience to ensure there's no tally
'twixt messages.

Hope to see you back.

I've got to go away first ;-)

Funnily enough I do have a few other idiosyncrasies that need explaining.
For instance..........

In the words of certain Austro-American governor, "I'll be back". Have no
fear.

Regards

Zig

 

[Zigzag]

Hi Steve,

Did you know that "dots per inch" is "hcni rep stod"
spelled backward, and "hcni rep stod" means "hogwash" in several Central
American dialects?

That's a funny way to pronounce gullible.

However, here is a truism:

Until 1976 London black cabs were required to carry a bale of hay to feed
the horses. It was a carry over from the hackney carriages and the law
wasn't taken off the statute books until 1976.

I asked an old cabby if he actually used to carry any hay in order not to
flout the law.
He said "nay".

They're all the same size *in pixels*. Just the dpi setting is different.

Erm, say again. If the constituent parts of the image are the pixels and
there are so many per inch thus giving the size of the image, what are the
dots? Is it a display/print thing or are we still cleaning the pig?

Yours gullibly

Zig

 

[Zigzag]

Hi Steve,

The light shineth brighter & brighter, a veritable sun.

His name wasn't Ed, by any chance?

Could have been, didn't get to see his licence but it might have had Mr (E.
D)obbin on the door.

I can hear the groans from here.

Regards

Zig

 

[Kathy J]

Winnie the Pooh would love it if you would stop - especially if you are
going to stop by with some honey....

 

[Echo S]

What a way for two groan men to be spending their time, eh?

Whinnyver you're ready, we can stop.

I think you'd better -- assuming you want to continue the neighborly
atmosphere here, that is.

 

[Zigzag]

Bonjour Steve,

Enough of the horsing (foaling?) around now.

As the flag is slowly lowered to the haunting sounds of The Last Post and
the final shred of dignity lies shivering in the corner awaiting a caring
and nurturing hand, we say a tear-ridden, yet fond, farewell to a discourse
both amiable and instructive.
And as the last note fades, the folded flag is carried away and the crowd
silently disperses, we know, every one of us, that the memory will live
forever in our hearts.

Heaven help us.

Au revoir mon ami, et merci

Zig (and cat)

 

[Zigzag]

Hi Kathy,

Winnie the Pooh would love it if you would stop - especially if you are
going to stop by with some honey....

What a sweet way to tell someone to shut up.

Only a lady of quality and refinement could express an unpleasant task in
such a pleasantly delicate way.

Dear Pooh, you silly old bear,
T.i.g.g.e.r, Eeyore, P-P-Piglet, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo and miself
greatfuly acsept yor kynd invitashun on condishun that Alice will let us
come.
We will bring plenty of Hunny and some milk for Roo and some haycorns for
Piglet and some thistles for Eeyore and some malt extract for T.i.g.g.e.r
('cos you know he hates Hunny) and some vegetables for Rabbit.
And we can lissen to storys from Owl, and play poohsticks with Roo and
bownse with T.i.g.g.e.r and you can rede some of yor poems and we can sing
some songs. And we can play 'pin the tail on the donkey' and then may be
even Eeyore will chere up. And we can invite Zig's cat 'cos she's fun and
allways muddy but not Zig 'cos he's old and weeard.

Your bestest frend
Christopher Robin

And they had a party at Pooh's house and it was the best party ever.

End of story, book closed.

Live happily ever after

Cat (and Zig)

 

[Zigzag]

Hi Echo,

I think you'd better -- assuming you want to continue the neighborly
atmosphere here, that is.

Aaargh!

As the cringe factor spirals upwardly out of control we have to ask
ourselves "Has it been worth it?".
After much reflection and soul searching, the answer has to be a resounding
"yes dammit, it's been good fun.
"Time consuming, reputation destroying, bandwidth eating, storage wasting
and almost totally pointless but fun nevertheless".

As Winston Churchill may have said, " Never, has so much been said, by so
many, on so little".

It's taken a long time to type all this nonsense mainly due to the fact that
I have arthritic fingers and have to press the keys with my nose. It's
funny, you can see all the dust between the keys from here and the static
from the screen makes your hair stand on end. I'll be glad to give it a rest
as I'm getting typists neck and a blunt conk.

So, hay ho, I'll trot off and try to leave the newsgroup in the stable state
that I found it and leave you to field the questions coming in. And there a
quite a bit. You've been saddled with me long enough so I'll rein it in,
retire back to my little corner of the shire and tell the kids tall tails.
Whither or not you'll miss me is another question. Let's have a show of
hands for ppt 'cos in the mane it does what is says on the tin.

With a tug of the forelock I'll go before I get gelded.

Adios

Zig

 

[Kathy J]

A fellow Pooh fan! So glad to see the refined combination of great punster
and reader of great books!
(I'm actually serious about that. There is so much many adults could learn
by reading some of the great children's books out there. But that's taking
thread drift a little further than even I usually do.)

If you are going to stop by with food, don't tell Mikey... I promise the
thread will really drift then

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[Echo S]

Hi Echo,


Aaargh!

As the cringe factor spirals upwardly out of control we have to ask
ourselves "Has it been worth it?".
After much reflection and soul searching, the answer has to be a resounding
"yes dammit, it's been good fun.
"Time consuming, reputation destroying, bandwidth eating, storage wasting
and almost totally pointless but fun nevertheless".

As Winston Churchill may have said, " Never, has so much been said, by so
many, on so little".

hehe. Usually our bad pun threads revolve (devolve?) around food --
especially fish and sea creatures. This has been a nice change of pace.

It's taken a long time to type all this nonsense mainly due to the fact that
I have arthritic fingers and have to press the keys with my nose. It's
funny, you can see all the dust between the keys from here and the static
from the screen makes your hair stand on end. I'll be glad to give it a rest
as I'm getting typists neck and a blunt conk.

So, hay ho, I'll trot off and try to leave the newsgroup in the stable state
that I found it and leave you to field the questions coming in. And there a
quite a bit. You've been saddled with me long enough so I'll rein it in,
retire back to my little corner of the shire and tell the kids tall tails.
Whither or not you'll miss me is another question. Let's have a show of
hands for ppt 'cos in the mane it does what is says on the tin.

With a tug of the forelock I'll go before I get gelded.

H U G E G R O A N!

(and a big fat grin!)

Echo

 

[Kathy J]

Zigzag -
Did you ever get this system information together and send it to me? I
haven't received it if you did....

Can you also let me know if your background is a graphic or flat color?

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[Zigzag]

Hi Kathy,

Sorry for the delay, I've been an bit busy trying to get some vba and custom
animation working as you might of noticed on another (longwinded) thread.
I'll get the stuff off to you, promise.

As a workaround I have noticed that putting shadowing on the text,
particularly the colour coded automatic shadows, does a lot to smooth any
jaggedness.

Regards

Zig et chat

 

[Kathy J]

Interesting idea Zig - Do you think it really affects the jaggies, or does
it just distract the eye from noticing it?

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[Zigzag]

Hi Kathy,

Let me just do a comparison.

Zig

 

[Zigzag]

Hi Kathy,

Interesting idea Zig - Do you think it really affects the jaggies, or does
it just distract the eye from noticing it?

Mmm, probably the latter. Scrap the automatic bit, they look better when the
shadow colour is close to the font colour (I'm using a gold font with a
light brown shadow on a red gradient background , better than the automatic
grey shadow).
And the shadows look appalling on smaller font sizes.
However the text definitely looks better in bold probably because the
jaggies, as you call them, are a lesser percentage of each character than
those not in bold.

I've also been comparing the jaggies using exactly the same font, size and
colour for animated and non-animated text boxes and they're both the same.
Looks like a retraction is called for from a previous post.

Whatever I use I can still see red anti-alias 'splodges' on the outside of
the characters.

Zig

 

[Zigzag]

Hi Kathy,

This is getting worse. I've shut down ppt and started it up again, created a
non-animated textbox on a new slide and there's nothing wrong with it.
I copied the textbox and put a motion path on the copy and that is
definitely worse than the original box.

I've turned hardware acceleration on and off in ppt and there's no
noticeable difference.

I have an NVidia GeForce4 Ti4200 8xAGP graphics card and have changed the
anti-aliasing from application-controlled to manual settings and have found
no difference in the quality of the text.

Zig