readable text on the maps ?

[Gandwarf]

The texts in CC3 are indeed less readable as they are created as vectors and there's no antialiasing. I labelled almost all my maps outside of CC3 because of this. However, as it takes a lot of work I did the labelling of my last map in CC3 (it contained hundreds of labels!) and it turned out quite all right.

[Noon]

Gandwarf thank you, your response reassures me about CC3.
For Inkscape, I understood my mistake : I must begin by converting the text in path ^_^
Now, Inkscape is my friend :-D

[Redrobes]

Since Gandwarf knows about CC3 then I would say then that its not that they are vectorized thats the issue it would be the lack of anti aliasing. You can get a form of anti aliasing called super sampling if you made the map a lot bigger than you need and then slightly blur it and then cut the size down.

You can read more about this in my tut:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=2596

but what I am getting at is that you can stay with CC3 if you do it this way and get readable fonts with it all assuming CC3 allows such a big map.

[jaerdaph]

Due to the lack of anti-aliasing in CC2 Pro, I began using Fireworks for text labeling as post-work. With the sheet effects in CC3, I get much better results with text than I did with CC2 Pro that I rarely go to Fireworks anymore, even though there is still a lack of anti-aliasing.

[jaerdaph]

FYI: The new Patch 8 (also called Update 8 ) from Profantasy for CC3 now adds anti-aliasing functionality to bitmap exports (BMP, PNG, JPG) from the program. More here:

http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=7968