Subpixel font rendering in 1.1.12

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Subpixel font rendering in 1.1.12

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The announcement for Wine 1.1.12 says that support for subpixel font rendering has been added. The question is, how can we use it? Is there a way to enable it globally? (there's no such setting in winecfg)
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Re: Subpixel font rendering in 1.1.12

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onestone wrote:The announcement for Wine 1.1.12 says that support for subpixel font rendering has been added. The question is, how can we use it? Is there a way to enable it globally? (there's no such setting in winecfg)
It will be used automatically if your FreeType lib supports it.
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Re: Subpixel font rendering in 1.1.12

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vitamin wrote:It will be used automatically if your FreeType lib supports it.

I guess it does - all GTK and Qt based apps have antialiased fonts. Only under Wine are they still pixelated. The wineprefix is freshly regenerated with the new version.
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I believe you should use font other than built-in Tahoma. Tahoma has pixmapped sizes at which it is not smoothed. You can try other font or non-pixmapped sizes of Tahoma.
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Ansus wrote:I believe you should use font other than built-in Tahoma. Tahoma has pixmapped sizes at which it is not smoothed. You can try other font or non-pixmapped sizes of Tahoma.

Thanks, but that doesn't work either. I tried Liberation Sans, DejaVu Sans, and others - all are aliased.
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onestone wrote:Thanks, but that doesn't work either. I tried Liberation Sans, DejaVu Sans, and others - all are aliased.
See this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16729
There are some registry changes you need to make.
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vitamin wrote:See this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16729
There are some registry changes you need to make.

Ok, this worked. Thanks for pointing it. :P

P.S. I also had to install "allfonts" using winetricks in order to make the default dialogs font "smoothable". I guess Wine was looking for Tahoma, couldn't find it, and was substituting it with something else.
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onestone wrote:
vitamin wrote:See this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16729
There are some registry changes you need to make.

Ok, this worked. Thanks for pointing it. :P

P.S. I also had to install "allfonts" using winetricks in order to make the default dialogs font "smoothable". I guess Wine was looking for Tahoma, couldn't find it, and was substituting it with something else.

Will i am a complete noob when it comes to editing. do you mind listing what you did to editing registy to fix the font problem?
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Will i am a complete noob when it comes to editing. do you mind listing what you did to editing registy to fix the font problem?
Download the .reg file attached to the bug, run regedit and select import from the Registry menu.

If that doesn't work for you welcome to the club. Subpixel definitely isn't working for me and also anti-aliasing doesn't work at all for font sizes smaller than 20.
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