Qs on CLEARTYPE_QUALITY

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Hi,
here's some questions about CLEARTYPE_QUALITY ...

1. if CLEARTYPE_QUALITY is specifed on a non XP system (eg, 98SE), what
happens? does it fall back to DEFAULT_QUALITY? or ANTIALIASED_QUALITY? or
what?

2. if CLEARTYPE_QUALITY is specifed on a XP system but the DC on which I
attempt to use it does not support ClearType (eg, is a printer), what
happens? does the select fail? does GDI create and use a similar hfont?

3. what is CLEARTYPE_NATURAL_QUALITY? (found in the win2003sp1 edtion of
the platformsdk)

what I want is simply:
"give me the best possible quality - ie, ClearType (if avail and user
enabled), else AntiAlias (if avail), else proof ..."
and to have this work on all win32 on screen, printer and dibsections

just specifying DEFAULT_QUALITY gives me ClearType on my XP, but on 98SE, it
doesn't give me ClearType (no supprise) OR antialias :-(

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Louis Solomon
www.SteelBytes.com


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