Alright,
So, I'm an Architect and I'm pretty good in Autodesk's AutoCAD platform.
Lately it came to me as an idea - for me to start Creating / Designing a Glyphicons / Icons at pretty much all known / usable sizes (16x16 px / 32x32 px / 64x64 px and etc...). So, I've hooked up to my AutoCAD and design a few. After that I have saved the Autodesk file to .DWG format and Open it in Illustrator by using the "Place" option (File > New Document > Place > File.DWG). Further that, I had my placed icon in illustrator as a stroke so, I've expand it and merge it all up on 2 px stroke - then I have resize it (proportionally) down to 16x16 px. It was all good until I hit the stage at exporting the 16x16 px glyph from Illustrator to a .PNG file. The glyph was all pixelized and it lost it's quality durring that export from the AI. I have also tried Using the Anti-Alias and NOT-Using the Anti-Alias option yet, it's not in a good shape either way.
Here's an example of my glyph as exported: (with Anti-Alias), (without Anti-Alias) and manually refined
Here's a Screenshot pretty much explaning all of it:
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
ON THE LEFT:
I have my glyph exported in/with:
01. With Anti-Alias
02. Without Anti-Alias
03. Without Anti-Alias + Manually refined pixel by pixel in Photoshop.
ON THE RIGHT:
Are a dozen of glyphs across the net pretty much at the same size as mine (16x16 px) and they're pixel perfect...
So my question is: Does it actually needs for me to export each glyph in Illustrator without using the Anti-Alias option and then Refining It in Photoshop (manually pixel by pixel) or there's an option in the Illustrator to actually export it on a small size like that as a perfect shape (pretty much as the 3th example - where's manually refined)? If so, please let me know about it because I'm planning on making Glyph Sets with 100/200+ Glyphs and refining each one of it would be pretty painful for me.
Thanks in an advance,
Maria
