text generation on transparent png problem

[stevebramley]

Hi folks,

I'm having a drama with generating italicised text on a transparent png. all is lovely except each successive letter seems to paint the transparent background colour over the top of the last letter. When letters overlap on the vertical axis, parts of the previous letter are overwritten.

you can see the problem here: where the 'o' has been partially obscured by the 'j' block.

Anyone have this drama before and solved it?

Steve

[Cindy]

Italics does that with lots of fonts, because you require more space per character. Just increase your character spacing.

[stevebramley]

Hi Cindy,

Thanks for the reply but that's not a very good alternative. increasing the kerning just limits the typographic treatment options. I was hoping someone had found a workaround. I can think of one but was hoping there was a simpler method on hand.

[tuna]

Originally Posted by stevebramley

Hi Cindy,

Thanks for the reply but that's not a very good alternative. increasing the kerning just limits the typographic treatment options. I was hoping someone had found a workaround. I can think of one but was hoping there was a simpler method on hand.

The issue is with the font rendering.

Tried dropping the font in as curve and rendering as a smart object this should render as the curve then translate to a bit map, an hence have no hidden overlap.

[madpilot]

It is actually rendering correctly - italics can spill out of the bounding box, but my guess is a background colour is being applied at the same time, which is causing the issue.

Can you remove the background colour from the fonts? It you can alpha it, you shouldn't see and clipping.

[tuna]

Originally Posted by madpilot

It is actually rendering correctly - italics can spill out of the bounding box, but my guess is a background colour is being applied at the same time, which is causing the issue.

Can you remove the background colour from the fonts? It you can alpha it, you shouldn't see and clipping.

May also be the font, some (a lot) don't have a outline for italics, could try an alternative foundary.