This is my wine day: subpixel-AA is here

hasi · Post by **hasi** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:54 pm

This makes may day; it actually makes my week!

I can't believe the genius wine developers have implemented subpixel font anti-aliasing in 1.1.12! All the apps look 100 times better now! I have opened Word 2003 about 10 times today just to look at the new beautiful UI! I have waited for this ever since I started using wine (~ 2006).

This is my personal wine day! Thank so much, wine developers and everyone here -- you are truly amazing!!!

--hasi

Sam Fourman Jr. · Post by **Sam Fourman Jr.** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:02 am

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:54 PM, hasi <[email protected]> wrote:

This makes may day; it actually makes my week!

I can't believe the genius wine developers have implemented subpixel font anti-aliasing in 1.1.12! All the apps look 100 times better now! I have opened Word 2003 about 10 times today just to look at the new beautiful UI! I have waited for this ever since I started using wine (~ 2006).

This is my personal wine day! Thank so much, wine developers and everyone here -- you are truly amazing!!!

--hasi

Do you have to do anything special to enable subpixel-AA ?

Sam Fourman Jr.

hasi · Post by **hasi** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:20 am

You have to put the following code into a file and import it into the registry:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002
"FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578
"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001

...hope this helps.
--hasi

Warren Dumortier · Post by **Warren Dumortier** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:45 pm

Why not setting this key as default? It would be nicer for everyone i think...

2009/1/6 hasi <[email protected]>:

You have to put the following code into a file and import it into the registry:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002
"FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:00000578
"FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001

...hope this helps.
--hasi

hasi · Post by **hasi** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:22 pm

I think comment #4 in bug 16729 provides an explanation. It's simply not been updated yet:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16729
Best,
--hasi

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:53 am

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Warren Dumortier <[email protected]> wrote:

Why not setting this key as default? It would be nicer for everyone i think...

Rather put in in winecfg... Subpixel AA looks horrible on a CRT...

Gert