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Question re ClearType Tuner (New) update/addon for use by ...
My question is this: Has anyone ENABLED the "Cleartype" choice of font smoothing in XP with his machine? When we do - even AFTER trying to "tune it" at the MS site, it is painfully blurry. I have a very old laptop ( P 233 with 4 megs vid on an old Chips&tech chip) on which ClearType font smoothing looks amazing.

Question: MS Reader on PocketPC
The Linux build of this browser doesn't seem to render fonts as nicely as its Windows (Cleartype) counterpart. Apparently Microsoft hold patents on some parts of Cleartype, which will make it difficult for Linux to do a similar thing. I've isolated the "ghosting", too. It really happens badly when I move a

MS Readerworks question about Cleartype...
As I understand it, Mandrake (being legally cautious) build the the freetype2 library without the anti-aliasing (ClearType?) flag set. PLF (being less concerned by such issues) provide the equivalent library recompiled with the bit set. Hmmm...I'm gonna do an install of a distro using Xorg in a few weeks.

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Bruce E Bru...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public internetexplorer general Found the same problem with ClearType not working on my MyMSN home page - in the IE7 General Release 18 Oct. Here's the fix - To to the Change Colors option in the page - this is displayed just above your content, below the (Your

ClearType question
If that is the best that ClearType can do, I don't want it. Why should I blow money on it? Probably why people are holding back for something better. Even Best Buy here can't keep any Macs in stock, but they are having one doozey of a time peddling PCs. Ah, that's a different question. Some people like really small

ClearType & UI Font Question?
Chris Jackson chr...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp basics ClearType will support any font that is vector-based - TrueType or OpenType. If you are using a bitmapped font, then it won't work. So, if your application uses an older non-vector font, or your Chinese font isn'ta vector font, then it can't do its job

MS Readerworks question about Cleartype...
They look good compared to font rendering without anti-aliasing, but not against ClearType. Have you done an actual comparison? The point is that Apple claims to utilize subpixel filtering for the Medium setting, but really doesn't. A partial pixel does not activate the RGB subpixels individually -- it simply shows

Cleartype Question
Roy Tang audiph...@yahoo.com alt sys pc-clone dell Here is the URL of the cleartype (Cleartype only works in Windows XP) If you use a regular CRT monitor, On a CRT it makes it look worse in my opinion Cleartype works great for LCD monitors http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/1.htm?fname=%20&fsize=

Web Development with Django: Windows vs Linux/Mac OS X
Somehow I missed his original reply and unable to locate my orig question on newsgroup. Apparently this "clear type" doesn't work on desktop CRT monitor, but I swear mine is easier to read since I installed it... Bob London, Ontario, Canada. "SP Goodman" <earthligh...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

MS Readerworks question about Cleartype...
Tim Smith reply_in_gr...@mouse-potato.com comp sys mac advocacy In article <1e9ffba8.0301171529.2101d...@posting.google.com>, Candice H. Brown Elliott wrote: Please visit our website for further details. I can't. Tell your idiot web designers to test with Mozilla-based browsers. -- Evidence Eliminator is worthless:

MS Readerworks question about Cleartype...
On my Wintel laptop and desktop (with LCD flat panel display), I run XP with ClearType. This gives me incredible clarity and sharpness with text. I understand some people don't like it, can't get used to it, or can't see a difference, but to me ClearType is one of the most compelling features of XP.

1800FP Question
The brief flicker in IE7 between ClearType and regular type I suppose is unavoidable. I could use a slide transition instead, but it wouldn't look as good. Oh well. gmail.com> wrote: Brian, In IE6 you can usually solve the problem by setting an explicit background color on the element in question.

Question about cleartype and third party apps
Add the ClearType meta tag to one of them and copy them both to your Pocket PC. You can easily see the improvement on the ClearType page. Jonathan Rogers jrog...@rcsis.com "Jay Leno" <A...@Jay.Anything> wrote in message news:edYaI1L$$GA.296@cppssbbsa05... And here we come again with the same good old question: why

Question about ClearType vs. Jaguar font smoothing
And here we come again with the same good old question: why we need Cleartype at all to read ebooks? You don't. You can read the text on your contact program without ClearType right? The point is that it makes it look BETTER. I don't see how anyone can argue that point...

Sub-pixel hinting (fonts question)
Carey cnfri...@midsouth.rr.com microsoft public windowsxp customize http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/default.html.

ClearType question
Brian K iibntgyea4__remove_th...@hotmail.com alt sys pc-clone dell I prefer Clear Type with my CRT monitor but my mate dislikes it. Obviously a personal choice. Here is the URL of the cleartype (Cleartype only works in Windows XP) If you use a regular CRT monitor, don't turn it on until you buy the LCD monitor.

ClearType Question...
Star Fleet Admiral Q Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NO-SPAM)@(SPAM-NOT)hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general Clear type does not work with Win9x OS's, NT or 2k - it was an enhancement for XP/2k3 OS's and works only with LCD type displays. If your friends PC meets the above criteria, then try loading it and find out,

Question to Windows guru: _full_size_range_text antialiasing ...
Is Apple using the term "subpixel filtering" instead of "subpixel addressing" to mean that they don't really do what ClearType does? Does anyone know if Apple is working on something that is truly competitive against ClearType? Please allow me to answer the questions as I understand them.

ClearType question regarding IE7 RC1
andrei.bogomo...@gmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general Once again: cleartype is not suitable, becouse of color distortion on subpixel level. With cleartype turned on text is better but letters colors are distorted, becouse of subpixel AA. Black color is not black in small letters its about dirty-grey

ClearType question regarding IE7 RC1
I have ClearType on by default. I noticed that the menu items for vBulletin is not coming in ClearType but rather standard styled text. Is this a bug or a feature implementation? http://www.supz.net/images/vbull.jpg is an example of what I'm talking about. -- Nocturnal @ www.randomfix.com.