Sorry, scratch that idea... I'm not sure that does *anything *to fonts... -Tres On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:40 PM, A. Tres Finocchiaro < tres.finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not reading your entire post. > > Apply a stock windows theme with winecfg and pick cleartype fonts. > > If you don't know what I mean, find a copy of this theme: > http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061029/royale-noir/ > > Then do this: > > winecfg >> Desktop Integration >> install. > > Warning though, it can really bog some things down, but you *did *ask for > it. :) > > -Tres > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:05 AM, hasi <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > One of the things that DOES make a big difference for me is > > font-antialiasing (AA). (OK, maybe I am picky). Does anyone have > > experience/knowledge on that subject? > > What surprises me is that for a few fonts (BitStream Vera Sans, for > > instance), it is active, whereas it is completely absent for most others. > > Why is that? (BTW, I just found out that I get the best results so far for > > the new MS font "Corbel"--I admit not a very "free" solution, but a > > practical one. I now have set this as the default font for menus, tooltips, > > etc.) > > > > For instance, in the Word documents I am editing, AA kicks in above a > > certain font size (or document magnification/zoom), but seems to be switched > > off below. Is that a parameter that can be set somewhere? Also, in a Word > > document, if I select a magnification which renders a certain font with AA, > > the same characters would not be AA'ed for italic letters. ??? > > > > The AA I have seen happen in wine is a simple AA only ("grayscale"). > > Ultimately, of course, one would like to see subpixel-AA (like ClearType in > > Windows) in wine applications, which is now widely available on linux > > through freetype2. Can that be switched on in wine? > > Any thoughts/ideas/knowledge about AA under wine would be interesting. > > Thanks very much. > > --hasi. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > - Tres.Finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxx -- - Tres.Finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080226/bc298845/attachment.htm
