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| I must say I am not very pleased with either result. The anti-aliased
| symbols look really ugly. Some black lines have a light-gray line 
| running along them, which would have looked much better if it was 
| background color.

I really don't see what you are describing. They look fine to me.

| I think the true-type-font rendering is much more suitable for scaling 
| pictures with sharp high-contrast edges and narrow lines, such as we are | dealing with here.

| I guess it would not be very difficult to create your Shogi pieces
| through font-based rendering.

For now, these are moot points, because I don't have a font editor.