OT: Windows XP

It's interesting. I did the same thing. Then I set it back and forth a few
times. Finally I left it on for two days and love it. (I use a laptop) When
I see a monitor that doesn't use it now it feels like I'm back using my
Heath-Zenith H89 and DOS again.....all I see are the pixels of the letters.

It's true it isn't as crisp, but it's more like reading real type and less
like pixelated computer fonts.

MD

Al Sparber- PVII wrote:

Osgood wrote:

Yep. There must be an awful lot of people viewing jagged looking
fonts on screen.

I'm pretty sure that font smoothing is on by default in XP. There are
two stages -

1. Basic Font smooting, which works like OSX. That is, headings will
be smoothed, but not smaller body text. This is good on LCDs
2. Clear Type. I turned that off immediately. It looks horrid on my
LCD monitor - makes everything very smooth at the expense of
crispness.

You need a patch for the emulator.

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"Mad Dog" <md (AT) mdp (DOT) com> wrote

Give me a break. Am I the only one who, before they have enough coffee, is
reading news groups with a brain emulator? And a trial version shareware
one
at that......


Murray *TMM* wrote:
Bah. Lame.... 8)


"Mad Dog" <md (AT) mdp (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:cer0l7$p4g$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Okay, please ignore me. It's early, I haven't finished my coffee,
and I didn't notice you were using a Mac with an emulator.

Doh!

(But anyone with Win XP who isn't using ClearType should be!)

MD


Mad Dog wrote:
Have you got ClearType turned on?

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeInfo.mspx




Osgood wrote:
Does windows XP have an option for font smoothing?


The reason I ask is that I'm viewing <h2> <h3> tags in PC
IE6/NN7/FireFox and Opera6 and they look a bit rough around the
edges to say the least.

In Mac browsers, OSX, they look pretty smooth.


Cheers

Mad Dog wrote:

It's interesting. I did the same thing. Then I set it back and forth
a few times. Finally I left it on for two days and love it. (I use a
laptop) When I see a monitor that doesn't use it now it feels like
I'm back using my Heath-Zenith H89 and DOS again.....all I see are
the pixels of the letters.

It's true it isn't as crisp, but it's more like reading real type and
less like pixelated computer fonts.

Yes. To each his own.


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Mad Dog wrote:

(But anyone with Win XP who isn't using ClearType should be!)

I run XP using Virtual PC on my Macintosh. I wish I could apply OS X's
font smoothing to my XP windows instead of using ClearType.

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James Shook wrote:

Mad Dog wrote:


(But anyone with Win XP who isn't using ClearType should be!)


I run XP using Virtual PC on my Macintosh. I wish I could apply OS X's
font smoothing to my XP windows instead of using ClearType.

Hummm...so should I be using 'cleartype' instead of 'standard'?

Al Sparber- PVII wrote:

Osgood wrote:

Yep. There must be an awful lot of people viewing jagged looking fonts
on screen.


I'm pretty sure that font smoothing is on by default in XP. There are
two stages -

Nothing was on in my XP by default but then again I'm using an emulator
so maybe that's a bit different.

1. Basic Font smooting, which works like OSX. That is, headings will be
smoothed, but not smaller body text.

Yup, once I turned 'basic' on the the headings were improved but not as
good as on OSX. Does that sound about right?

This is good on LCDs

2. Clear Type. I turned that off immediately. It looks horrid on my LCD
monitor - makes everything very smooth at the expense of crispness.

Not tried that yet.

Mad Dog wrote:

Have you got ClearType turned on?

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeInfo.mspx

Thanks. I'll do some reading.

Osgood wrote:

1. Basic Font smooting, which works like OSX. That is, headings will
be smoothed, but not smaller body text.

Yup, once I turned 'basic' on the the headings were improved but not
as good as on OSX. Does that sound about right?

Depends on your monitor, I guess. They should be roughly the same.

This is good on LCDs
2. Clear Type. I turned that off immediately. It looks horrid on my
LCD monitor - makes everything very smooth at the expense of
crispness.

Not tried that yet.

If you have a CRT you may like clear type. However, I don't so I can't
tell you.

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On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:56:53 -0400, James Shook <jshook (AT) dont_mail (DOT) com>
wrote:

Mad Dog wrote:

(But anyone with Win XP who isn't using ClearType should be!)

I run XP using Virtual PC on my Macintosh. I wish I could apply OS X's
font smoothing to my XP windows instead of using ClearType.

Gah. ClearType on my CRT makes me think my eyes are slightly crossed.
The text is WAY too blurry!

And this is a 22" monitor running at 1280x1024.

According to the text that accompanies the ClearType choice, it's
recommended for laptops (and therefore LCDs, perhaps), not CRTs.

Win
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Win Day wrote:

According to the text that accompanies the ClearType choice, it's
recommended for laptops (and therefore LCDs, perhaps), not CRTs.

It really looks awful on my LCDs, too. Perhaps it's meant for young eyes
only.