BUG: Freehand text appears noticeably blurrier than in Excalidraw.com

[piotrnajda3000]

Have you searched for existing issues (including closed ones)?

• Yes, I have searched the existing issues.

Does this bug persist in a new vault with only Excalidraw installed?

• Yes, I have verified the issue persists.

Your environment

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.6.7
	Installer version: v1.6.7
	Operating system: #49~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Nov  6 17:42:15 UTC 2 6.8.0-49-generic
	Login status: logged in
	Catalyst license: none
	Insider build toggle: off
	Live preview: on
	Base theme: adapt to system
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 0
	Restricted mode: off
	Plugins installed: 1
	Plugins enabled: 1
		1: Excalidraw v2.7.4

Describe the bug

Freehand drawing appears blurrier than in Excalidraw.com (or staging.excalidraw.com)

Side by side image (the difference is best visible here due to vid. compression): https://imgur.com/a/I3xJyf1

Video

2025-01-05.13-01-37.mov

Steps to reproduce

Element from the video to copy and paste

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.excalidraw file

• First, either copy the above element to Excalidraw.com and Obsidian OR load the prepared .excalidraw file
• Then, Alt + Tab between the two, and notice the rendering

Expected behavior

For the Obsidian Excalidraw freetext sharpness to match Excalidraw.com's sharpness.

Additional context

While writing in Obsidian, I've noticed that the text appears kind of blurry. Initially, I thought it might be a problem with smoothing of the pen, so I turned it down in the custom fine-tip pen.

However, by directly copying the element from Obsidian Excalidraw to Excalidraw.com, I can see the bluriness difference clearly, so it must be a rendering issue, not related to writing.

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Additional tags for search: blurry, freehand blurry, blurry text.

[zsviczian]

must be something on your end, this looks sharp to me both images at 470% zoom

[zsviczian]

and excalidraw.com

[piotrnajda3000]

It's possible it's my device issue, i.e. Linux. However, I can also see the issue does not appear at high zoom - can you please take a look at 100% zoom?

[zsviczian]

excalidraw.com:

obsidian:

Zoom is 100% in both cases... but the toolbar in Excalidraw is larger, thus the wider image... I don't see difference in sharpness

You can try updating Obsidian (you are using an older installer), the newer comes with a newer Electron, maybe that solves it (though I doubt)

[piotrnajda3000]

Unfortunately, the update didn't help.

I will test this out on a Windows device later.

Thank you for attending to this issue!