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Michael,
Thanks for checking. I was also able to check on a Windows machine and an
older Mac running 10.6 and the font displays just fine.
I should point out that I ultimately have to have a binary image so that is
why I do not choose anti-aliased.
I came up with a workaround. I choose anti-aliased and it looks fine, but
has grey pixels. So I then apply an auto threshold. I played around with
different "methods" and found that "default" and "minimum" give best
results. It does not look as good as "the good old days prior to Catalina"
but it is legible.
So I agree that there are indeed lots of posts about font problems on
Catalina. I am not experiencing fonts issues in other programs but then
again, I am not a font fanatic so I might be missing subtle problems that
are magnified when sampling so sparsely with 12 point font in an ImageJ
image window.
I don't know how ImageJ implements anti-aliasing and non anti-aliasing. If
it is similar to my workaround (anti-aliasing followed by thesholding) I
wonder if thresholding has gone a bit off in Catalina? I don't really have
a way of testing that. But odds are that Michael is right and it is
Catalina font issues.
Joe Vandergracht
Hi Joe,
no problem with Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) and a recent daily build:
ImageJ 1.53e15; Java 1.8.0_112 [64-bit]; Linux 4.4.0-187-generic.
See the screenshot.
So I suspect a MacOS Catalina issue. If you search the internet for
"Catalina font problem" you will find quite a few results.
Michael
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