Open smalers opened 1 year ago
I reviewed and experimented with fonts, with the following results:
bin/TSTool.l4j.ini
file has been updated with links and -Dswing.aatext=true
to turn on anti-aliasing for fonts. However, trying the -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=gasp
and other variations led to some fonts being bolded and other thin text being difficult to read.See:
So, no major changes at this point but maybe the minor changes will have some impact on different computers.
I did find that the JRE command line settings in the development environment did not match the deployed environment related to anti-aliasing so I made them the same. Unfortunately, this slightly impacted output images for some automated tests so I had to resave expected results. Future tweaking of graphics will also likely cause test results to change.
Subject of the issue
Some people have commented that TSTool graphs are not at the same quality as Excel, for example. Therefore, TSTool is useful for some visualizations, but people still use Excel (for example) to create images for documents. It would be great to get feedback on what can be improved. TSTool graph performance is highly optimized for performance and interactive data viewing and some features like auto-adjusting axis labels may work differently than other software.
Here are some things that I am aware of but do not know if these are the issue. These issues seldom receive funding because funding typically goes towards functionality like commands or datastore integration. "Excel looks better" is too general to understand what needs to be improved. Specific feedback will be helpful. Some improvements might be trivial whereas others may have larger impacts that need to be tested.
ProcessTSProduct
command to automate. For example, line color and symbols, legend, etc. can be configured. People may not know about all the graph properties. Perhaps annotations can be improved such as allowing text color to be set?Environment