[Cin] Font Anti-Aliasing With The Title Effect

[ben at innovationplex.com]

Smoothing enabled or disabled, font edges look rather jagged. Smoothing 
seems to smooth the font curves, not the edges.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:48 PM, Phyllis Smith 
<phylsmith2017 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe it's just me, but the title effect seems to have rather 
>> pixelated text and drop shadow, even with normally smooth font 
>> families such as Noto. I suspect this is because of the way the text 
>> is rendered, but I could be wrong.
> Do you have "smooth" enabled?  Sometimes that looks better to me.  In 
> the Title plugin you can see where this is at:
>       <https://streamable.com/22354>
> 
>> As a side note, I'd also like to mention that drop shadows look 
>> significantly better when some blur (or feathering) is applied to 
>> them, but we cannot do this in cin as of yet.
> That might make a good option for gg to add but it is going to take 
> more cpu time.
> 
> P.S. Some things get lost in my email, so that is why I will open an 
> issue -  at least the I will be reminded to have gg look at it when 
> he has time to do so.

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