On 28 Jul 2005 at 10:34, Kevin Kastning wrote: > One tip for better font rendering in XP is as follows. > Right-click the desktop, and select Properties. (Or > go to Control Panel / Display.) On the Appearance > tab, click the Effects button. In the Effects window, > select, "Use the following method to smooth edges of > screen fonts" (checkmark in selection box), and in the > options dropdown, select ClearType. Click OK, Apply, > etc. I've not tried this with the problem described > below, but this setting does make a very noticeable > improvement everywhere else. > > There is a similar ClearType option in Windows 2000, > and maybe even Windows ME. In XP, it's a big > improvement.
Eh? ClearType was introduced with WinXP, and does not exist in previous versions of Windows (well, it might in WinME, but there are only 3 people in the world using that...). And ClearType really only has an effect with LCD displays -- that's what it was designed for. So, you really shouldn't use ClearType for anti-aliasing unless you're using an LCD display. Now, anti-aliasing, no the other hand, is a completely different animal. There should be a choice there for non-ClearType anti- aliasing, though I don't know what it is (and don't have an XP system to check). Anti-aliasing has been supported in Windows since Win95, but back then you had to have the Plus! pack to get it (as though clear onscreen display were an extra that nobody really needed!). NT-based windows did not get anti-aliasing as a default feature until Win2K. My guess is that WinME had anti-aliasing built in, given that it came out around the same time as Win2K, but I can't say for sure. Some people don't like anti-aliasing, though. The Windows implementation does cause problems with certain fonts at certain sizes. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
