Those shots were using the win7  system font viewer- which I think makes it 
plain old gdi cleartype?? Don't think direct write at system level comes until 
win8. I maybe wrong, but I thought dw was found in explorer 9 and Firefox 7+ 
but not the win system.
-v

Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote:

>
>> On closer inspection it is the 'G' option that gave the only
>> 'different' rendering i saw, and it's not overall better anyway.
>
>If you say `-w G', this means that you get the smooth algorithm for
>gray and DW ClearType, and strong for GDI ClearType, at least in
>theory.
>
>> Shots attached.
>
>Thanks!
>
>> These are on Win7 Cleartype:
>
>So all three images are using DW ClearType?  Then the logic in the
>font is not working correctly, since `-w G' and `-w g' should give the
>same (smooth) results, and `-w D' should show the strong
>rendering. :-(
>
>
>    Werner
>
>
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