Display text with pixelated edges (Publisher)

[IndependentArt]

Hey,

I'd like to know, whether there is an option to display text, without the edges being smoothed. There's an option like that in GIMP that is kinda useful when working on projects with pixel graphics. The letters in gimp also adapt to the pixel-grid while in Publisher the are more like a vector graphic until being rasterized.

 

[NotMyFault]

You can create this effect using blend ranges :

• deactivate anti-aliasing, combined to
• Play with coverage profile. Useful profile are flat lines at a chosen y level (e.g.50%), or step shaped _|–
• The coverage profiles are a bit buggy, but still usable for that purpose.

Older tutorial video (and kind of rant):

bug report

 

[IndependentArt]

Thanks.

Where exactly can I find anti-aliasing and coverage profile?

(ah, sorry, the Tutorial wasnt displayed earlier ... I'll check it out)

 

[joe_l]

Or an even more excentric way.

[IndependentArt]

It looks to me, that this is unsolvable in Publisher, because all text is still vector based. I'd need the text to adept to the pixel grid in realtime, which it does apparently in your tutorial in Affinity Photo. @NotMyFault

The document I want to do this in is 320 px wide. Below I screenshotted the text in Publisher. I got to deactivate the anti-aliasing but it's stell vector. The cryptic pixels below is what I get when I export with nearest neighboor.

 

[GarryP]

Only Photo and Designer (via the Pixel Persona) give you the option of seeing what the document looks like at a pixel level before you export to a raster format. (Actually, Photo doesn’t give you the option, it’s always that way, but it’s an option if you also have one of those applications, or both.)

In Publisher you will see an anti-aliased layer but that will (as far as I can tell) be at the screen-pixel level rather than at the document-pixel level, until the document is exported to a raster format and then it will be different.

[MikeTO]

Another option is to google pixel fonts to find scalable retro pixelated fonts without any hassle. There are lots of these available, including the original Macintosh Chicago font: https://fontsarena.com/sysfont-by-alina-sava/

I believe you can still disable font smoothing at the OS level but Apple and Microsoft have made it more difficult to do in recent years.