Font smoothing when converting EPS/PDF to pixel based format

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Font smoothing when converting EPS/PDF to pixel based format

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Hi - I'm wondering if there's a way to smooth fonts when converting EPS/PDF files. I've seen other services do this. E.g. small text or very fine typefaces, aren't smoothed/alias. I'm only ripping to 300dpi and it's not like it's jagged. But the result I'm looking for is similar to what happens when I open a PDF in Photoshop and turn aliasing on upon import. Much nicer looking result. I'm sure there's something in IM .... but ... what is it? ;-)

Thanks much!
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Re: Font smoothing when converting EPS/PDF to pixel based format

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Supersample. Try something like:
  • convert -density 400 image.pdf -resize 25% image.png
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Re: Font smoothing when converting EPS/PDF to pixel based format

Post by mirage »

Thanks - I was doing that already. Turns out the 'fonts' in the pdf were already rasterized! Doh! Ripping the original returns nice results.
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