Re: ClearType Glyph Rendering on Widescreen LCD monitor is incorrect

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance


"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:eov505h9mev6eflcg103mf54avbugrs792@xxxxxxxxxx
Note that if you "tune" or "disable" or otherwise change
the parameters of font rendering,
you have the problem if you want someone else to use your
program and they don't have the
same parameters. It gets worse if they don't like the
tuning or disabling you do.
joe


The easy way around that is for my system to set the
parameters the way that it
wants them, and reset them back the way that they were
before they were changed
upon exit. As far as setting ClearType on or off this is
easy. I am guessing
that tuning will also have a win32 interface.

In any case my current product offering will de-emphasize
glyph recognition,
thus the primary reason for this thread only pertained to
the annoyance of
blurry glyphs. It would still be helpful to understand
exactly what ClearType
tuning does.

On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:02:16 -0500, "Peter Olcott"
<NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
news:euxjLoxzJHA.2084@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Disable ClearType in IE (Properties->Advanced)

"Peter Olcott" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0ynMl.19245$Rf7.14618@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The black character glyphs have very visible red
stripes
on my Widescreen LCD monitor, (and thus look very
blurry)
but the same webpage viewed on my conventional aspect
ratio LCD looks fine. Also when this same webpage is
viewed in Safari, it looks very good regardless of the
monitor that I use. This problem shows up in IE 7, but,
I
think I have seen in other places too.

What is going on with this glyph rendering, and what
can
I do to fix it?




I really need to fix the rendering of ClearType fonts,
disabling it does not help. I also need to completely
understand what caused the problem.

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm


.

Relevant Pages

  • Subject: techniques of extracting the original ASCII?
    ... and got the answers that "it's rendered by a glyph". ... ASCII, why should *IT*, and not other chars be transformed? ... treated each char as an individual piece of art, why can't linux-tools nor Win7-adobe extract the original text ... And although close examination of the rendering does ...
    (comp.lang.postscript)
  • techniques of extracting the original ASCII?
    ... and got the answers that "it's rendered by a glyph". ... ASCII, why should *IT*, and not other chars be transformed? ... linux-tools nor Win7-adobe extract the original text ... And although close examination of the rendering does ...
    (comp.lang.postscript)
  • Re: Unicode and composition mappings
    ... Combining a letter and a diacritic in visual presentation might even take place at the _glyph_ level (i.e., the rendering engine might render such a combination using a single glyph from a font), but even that wouldn't be character-level issue. ... a simplistic implementation just takes a base character and a glyph for a diacritic and does an "overprint", and it might even use glyphs from different fonts, since many fonts don't have glyphs for many combining diacritics. ...
    (comp.std.internat)
  • Re: Trapped in the Yellow Box
    ... Safari 3 is a Mac app ported to ... There's no ClearType support. ... blurrier font rendering. ... rendering side-by-side and vastly prefer the antialiased text in Safari ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
  • Re: Apple should by MS.
    ... running on their shitty, overpriced Chinese Macs. ... Take a longer look at Windows's crisp font rendering. ... (Edwin on GEM) ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)