cleartype

Internet Explorer control uses IE7's own settings for ClearType and font size, can I override them?

I'm embedding an IE control into my C++ application. The problem is that although system-wide, ClearType is disabled, IE7 has its own separate setting, and unless I specifically disable that too, text inside the IE control will be antialiased while the rest of the app will not. The same goes for IE7's font size setting. It wouldn't be ...

Is it possible to enable ClearType on Visual Studio only?

I really like how Consolas looks with ClearType enabled but unfortunately it makes everything else look terrible. Is there any way to enable this on a per app basis? I noticed that putty (the terminal emulator) has options for ClearType separate from the display setting. ...

IE is losing ClearType

I'm experiencing something really strange! I have a div that I'm hiding with JS (jQuery). Like this: $('#myDiv').hide(); Then when I make a fadeIn like this: $("#myDiv").fadeIn('slow'); then the text loses ClearType in IE but not in FF. If I go with toggle insted of fadeIn, then it's all fine. What is IE up to and is there any so...

JQuery toggle function rendering weird text in IE (losing ClearType?)

Hi, I have this little script to toggle a contact form when a button is clicked : $(document).ready(function(){ $("#button").click(function () { $("#form").toggle("slow"); }); }); All is working OK in Firefox, but in IE it seems like the toggle's fade-in effect doesn't gets 100% complete, and the text is being 'frozen'...

Disable antialiasing for a specific GDI device context

I'm using a third party library to render an image to a GDI DC and I need to ensure that any text is rendered without any smoothing/antialiasing so that I can convert the image to a predefined palette with indexed colors. The third party library i'm using for rendering doesn't support this and just renders text as per the current window...

Possible to adjust ClearType on Visual Studio 2010?

I just got VS 2010 beta 1, but the text in the text editor is thin, ie not anti aliased, smoothed or cleartyped. It's hard to read. Is there a setting to adjust it, similar ot the one in the OS. ...

IE8: Disable cleartype?

For IE7, it's possible to add filter: none; to the body css to disable cleartype on fonts through CSS. I don't like the fuzzy look it gives, and it isn't really consistent across browsers. IE; Firefox and IE6 show it differently. IE8 however, seems to ignore the css option, even when forcing the browser into IE7 compatibility mode u...

Using ClearType in Graphics32 library (Delphi)

I'm using Graphics32 library in Delphi 2009. Is it possible to render a font using TBitmap32.TextOut method with MS' ClearType technology? I'm aware about GR32's built-in antialiasing (TBitmap32.RenderText) but the overall quality and performance is not gratifying. [ Update ] I've encountered another problem - I'm using function from T...

How to use ClearType with double buffering on Compact Framework?

When I draw a string into a buffer, the resulting output is not anti-aliased the way I'd expect. This code illustrates the problem... just put this in a standard smart device project's Form1.cs: protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e) { Bitmap buffer = new Bitmap(Width, Height, PixelFormat.Format32bppRgb); using(Graphics g...

How to get real text dimensions when ClearType is on?

I have a Win32 GUI application that uses GDI havily. It needs to draw text over a bitmap at specified coordinates and later erase it and substitute with the original bitmap. I proceed as follows: select font (GetStockObject( DEFAULT_GUI_FONT)), brush, other stuff into the device context call GetTextExtentPoint32() to compute the size ...

Problem with jQuery's fade in/out in Firefox

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How to Enable ClearType in My Site for FireFox?

In Windows XP and Vista it is possible to enable system wide ClearType font rendering. My question is: Is it possible to force ClearType rendering for my site in FireFox (maybe some META-TAG thing) even if system-wide ClearType is not set (like in IE7+)? ...

How to have subpixel rendering of font for LCD (cleartype on windows) on linux ?

Hi SO Friends, I am working on embedded system, with own windowing system and rendering library. Before someday when I installed Ubuntu, to my surprise it has LCD subpixel rendering. It really looks cool to have it on my device. Because it is very readable. Currently I ask for particular glyph in freetype, freetype gives me one memory ...

Programmatically enable ClearType in Windows Mobile

For our Windows Mobile application I want to enable the ClearType option on the device. According to this article on MSDN it should be done be setting the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\Cleartype But nothing happens after setting this particular key. Even a soft reset does not enable it, but simply gets rid of t...

Enable Windows Cleartype for MFC text controls created at runtime

I have a MFC dialog program in which I create a few CStatic and CEdit controls at runtime. Somehow the text in these controls aren't Cleartype enabled (Cleartype in Windows smoothes texts by sub-pixel positioning and coloring). However, when one manually adds an "Edit Control" or a "Static Text" control at design time from the Visual St...

Compact Framework and ClearType text

Is there a way to use ClearType text in an application using the .NET Compact Framework? ...

Why are not all texts of my MFC applicatiopn displayed using ClearType?

I've got an MFC application that is built with VC6. When ClearType is enabled (Windows XP) some texts are rendered smoothly, i.e. with ClearType, and others are not. Dialog texts don't seem to ever get rendered with ClearType. Some list controls, however, have it enabled completely, others only in their headers. What could be the reaso...

Detecting ClearType-optimized fonts

Question: Is there a way to check if a given font is one of Microsoft's ClearType-optimized fonts? I guess I could simply hard-code the list of font names, since it's a relatively short list, but that seems a bit ugly. Would the font names be the same regardless of Windows' locale and language settings? Background: PuTTY looks reall...

How to disable ClearType in Visual Studio 2010?

How to do that? I can't find solution. VS 2010 version: 10.0.30319.1 ...

Does Qt use ClearType for rendering text in Windows?

Does Qt use ClearType for rendering text (on Windows), and if so, what do I need to set to enable ClearType support? ...