1063373 - Fix font weight issues (due to font anti-aliasing on OS X)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox Graveyard :: Shumway, defect)

Description

[Michael Bebenita [:mbx]]

In nearly all SWFs, the text is too bold.

Comment 1

[Tobias Schneider [:tobytailor]]

This only affects Shumway running in browsers on Mac OSX where Web fonts seem to be rendered bolder in general (due to Mac OSX's advanced text anti aliasing). Even though there is a way to change the anti aliasing behavior via CSS, there is no option available for text drawn via Canvas.

Comment 2

[Till Schneidereit [:till]]

(In reply to Tobias Schneider [:tobytailor] from comment #1)
> Even though there is a way to change the anti aliasing behavior
> via CSS, there is no option available for text drawn via Canvas.

Sounds like something we might want to propose as a context2D feature. I'm pretty optimistic that implementing this would be easy enough.

Comment 3

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

This is an annoying fidelity issue, but not a Shumway blocker.

Comment 4

[John Daggett (:jtd)]

(In reply to Tobias Schneider [:tobytailor] from comment #1)
> This only affects Shumway running in browsers on Mac OSX where Web fonts
> seem to be rendered bolder in general (due to Mac OSX's advanced text anti
> aliasing). Even though there is a way to change the anti aliasing behavior
> via CSS, there is no option available for text drawn via Canvas.

CSS properties applied to the canvas should affect text rendered in canvas.