Rendering text nicely (OS X)

Hi,
I'm trying to use IM to render some text, but I'm not
getting  
visually appealing results.
Have a look at the attached screenshot (I hope this mailing
list  
supports attachments).

I'm showing the results of

  convert  -size 164x200 xc:white -font ./LucidaGrande.ttf 
- 
pointsize 10 -density 72 -draw "text 10,16
'Anthony'" label.png

I've experimented with various density and pointsize
settings, but  
I'm not getting the antialiasing that I get in applications
(see  
Photoshop on the right hand side and a normal (Carbon) OS X 

application below). With greater font sizes, the result is
downright  
ugly.

Is there a way to control antialiasing? How do I get nicely
rendered  
fonts?
I've got freetype 6.3.7 and 6.3.8 installed, and IM 6.2.9.

Thanks in advance.

PS.: please cc me in replies.


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On 17 Dec 2006, at 21:46, David Reitter wrote:

> Have a look at the attached screenshot (I hope this
mailing list  
> supports attachments).

In case the screenshot attached to my previous message got
stripped  
from the post, here it is:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/dreitter/im-rendering.png


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