One aspect of enhanced rendering is the ability to employ an anti-aliasing process that removes the jagged edges of text, labels, images, and vector lines and borders. Enabling enhanced rendering does not automatically enable anti-aliasing (smoothing options are set to None by default). You must set it in Style Preferences for the default state of newly created windows, or in the Options dialogs for individual Map, Browser, Layout, and Layout windows.
To open the Styles Preferences dialog box, on the PRO tab, click Options, and Styles.
To remove the appearance of jagged characters in horizontal and rotated labels and on custom text objects in the window, select the Enable Enhanced Rendering check box and choose Anti-Alias from the Smooth Text & Labels drop-down list. Smoothed text and labels look better on your map, but because these objects require more rendering, it may take longer to display your map. (For more information, see Setting your Style Preferences.)
If you wish to smooth raster and grid images in your window, you can set the quality of the resolution. Low Quality indicates there will be some image smoothing, but not at the expense of rendering performance. High Quality means that you want the highest amount of smoothing MapInfo Pro can provide. This will cause your map to draw more slowly than the Low Quality option.
The third anti-alias setting applies to lines and borders. The following illustration shows the before and after affects of anti-aliasing applied to the roads and labels in the Map window.
Enhanced Rendering Off |
Enhanced Rendering On, with smoothing options |