[jwiegley]

Hello, I'm using the text tool to create diagrams for posting on the web. Most everything is working great, except that all the fonts I try to use end up aliased, which looks really terrible. Is there a setting I need to turn on, so that it looks good? Even at 18pt, it my diagram on screen looks like something off an old dot matrix printer. -- john

[JKT]

This is actually a flaw in OS X, not OmniGraffle. Pages (at least version 1.0) has the same issue as would any other app that has to display fonts in the same way. I forget the actual cause of the problem, but a google search should pull something up on it.

[fantzhi]

But it's been a long pain since I start using Omnigraffle, and this problem still exist on leopard. Hopefully Omni can do something workaround. I really really really want to this problem to be solved. here is the link if you want to experiment with the problematic .graffle file: http://rapidshare.com/files/67774933/textRender.zip

[jwiegley]

So... I take it from the sheer lack of response that no one else uses OmniGraffle to create graphics for the Web? Because that's one of the main reasons I bought it: to add illustrations to my blog. The current text rendering support renders it nearly useless for that purpose, however, as the text in my illustrations looks like I scanned a photocopy of a badly printed book.

This would seem like something that people would really want to do. Note that I can export to PDF and then do a screenshot of the PDF in Preview and the text looks just fine. So why again can't OmniGraffle render text as well as Preview?

[jwiegley]

Omni folks, any reply?

[JKT]

I'm not the Omni folks, but here is the explanation for why this happens:

http://michelf.com/weblog/2006/subpi...achilles-heel/

jwiegley - I'm confused as to how OmniGraffle's display is a problem for web graphics unless you are doing a screen grab to obtain them? Exported and copy/pasted images should look fine.

[jwiegley]

Originally Posted by JKT

I'm confused as to how OmniGraffle's display is a problem for web graphics unless you are doing a screen grab to obtain them? Exported and copy/pasted images should look fine.

Hello! Exported images are exactly what I'm having the problem with. I export the image to the clipboard so I can paste it into RapidWeaver, where I then publish it to the Web.

John