I have tried aligning text (14-20px size) to half pixel and whole pixel grid coordinates and still when I export the text or text path it comes out blurry. I turned off bitmap oversampling and still it persist.

Has anyone come up with at way to overcome this limitation?

Pixel Snap, perhaps?

The author of that plugin says it does not work on text. So I figured there must be another way

You have to convert your text to a path first.

I first tried as text it did not work (as expected since it was not a path).

Then I converted it to a path and got the following error:
Selection contains non-symetric scaling
Selection contains non-symetric scaling


So then I broke apart and did a union and got the same error.

I'm all out of ideas.

Only the horizontal and vertical lines that lay on the correct grid should come out crisp. If you have any in-between lines it won't work. Can you post a screenshot?

Alright, I just tested and confirmed that it worked. This is a real rinky-dink way to tackle it but it's a workaround. If you can import your svg into Scribus then you can replace the Inkscape text with Scribus text and save out as PNG. Text is nice and crisp. Again, not brilliant but it works if you need to get your artwork finished.

Your the man heathenx: this may be dinky but it works. How did you make the png maintain transparency?

Nvrmind I figured it out. Thanks once again for the suggestion

heathenx wrote:Alright, I just tested and confirmed that it worked. This is a real rinky-dink way to tackle it but it's a workaround. If you can import your svg into Scribus then you can replace the Inkscape text with Scribus text and save out as PNG. Text is nice and crisp. Again, not brilliant but it works if you need to get your artwork finished.

So scribus text exports clearer then inkscape text exports?

-Rob A>

ffaat wrote:So scribus text exports clearer then inkscape text exports?

See this:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/font-rendering-respecting-the-pixel-grid.html

I don't think Inkscape makes any attempt to align text with the pixel grid, which the article describes as the Apple philosophy. When you're assuming infinite rescalability, you don't know where there pixel grid will be, so ignore it.

Scribus probably does respect the grid; or, more probably, uses the operating system text renderer which (on a windows machine) places/sizes text on the pixel grid so it's clearer, but at the cost of inaccurate placement. If that's the case (and I haven't tested it) you could achieve the same with Word, for instance.