Label outlines suck...

[sdlime]

Outlines around labels often appear incomplete. It's epecially noticeable with
bitmap fonts. See attached image. One solution may be to render in a small image
and use a filter or some specialized algorithm to create the halo. It may be
that we don't draw the text offset correctly. Anyway, it sucks.

Steve

[sdlime]

A sample image showing bad outlines.

[sdlime]

I changed the way outlines are produced, offsetting N,S,E,W instead of NE, NW, 
SE, SW. The results look much better although I'm not sure this will work for 
all cases. 

Steve

[sdlime]

I was wrong, doesn't handle all cases. The only way to fix this is to offset in 
all 8 directions, so that is what has been done in CVS. This is spendy though 
(drawing every friggin piece of text 9 times). Ideally I'd like to modify GD to 
do this more efficiently. For example, it would be nice to be able to use a 
brush to draw the text. That way you could lay down the outline using a 3x3 
brush and then draw the text. I'm gonna leave this one open... 

[sdlime]

The halo effect is correct now, but slow. DM has a fix for that too so this is
way out of date. Marking as invalid...

Steve

[dmorissette]

See bug 1243 for the fix that Steve referred to.