Re: How to enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?

[Rick Jones]

> 2009/3/15 Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmx.net>:
>
> ... A string of registry changes enabled smoothed
> fonts for me:

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=20061&sid=6fbbcf362e44a66b310ef88f63...

I was already using FontSmoothing=2 which was some improvement over 
nothing, but I didn't know these other settings. FontSmoothingType=2 made 
things much better, the others didn't seem to have any effect.

However, I then discovered that with FontSmoothingType=2, a Java app I run 
in Wine crashes when it opens. :(  The interesting item out of the Java 
stack trace is:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 0 incompatible with 
Text-specific LCD contrast key

Quite why Java is getting involved at this level I don't really know. 
Running on Windows with the same font smoothing settings it works fine.

Puzzling ...

How to enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?

[Igor Tarasov]

Just in case anyone interested, some time ago I've written script to
simplify enabling font smoothing and choosing the type one needs. Here
it is:
http://files.polosatus.ru/winefontssmoothing_en.sh

Russian version (in case anyone needs it):
http://files.polosatus.ru/winefontssmoothing.sh

Screenshot and short description:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1050920

HTH

--
Igor

How to enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?

[Anssi Hannula]

Igor Tarasov wrote:
> Just in case anyone interested, some time ago I've written script to
> simplify enabling font smoothing and choosing the type one needs. Here
> it is:
> http://files.polosatus.ru/winefontssmoothing_en.sh
>
> Russian version (in case anyone needs it):
> http://files.polosatus.ru/winefontssmoothing.sh
>
> Screenshot and short description:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1050920

Better if Wine would use fontconfig's configuration as set by desktop
environment (~/.fonts.conf).

-- 
Anssi Hannula

How to enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Anssi Hannula" <anssi.hannula(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Better if Wine would use fontconfig's configuration as set by desktop
> environment (~/.fonts.conf).

That's not a very good idea, see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16745
for details.

-- 
Dmitry.

How to enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?

[Ben Klein]

2009/3/17 Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com>:
> "Anssi Hannula" <anssi.hannula(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Better if Wine would use fontconfig's configuration as set by desktop
> > environment (~/.fonts.conf).
>
> That's not a very good idea, see
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16745
> for details.

Maybe the solution would be to make font AA settings configurable in
winecfg? Would it be possible to do so on a per-application basis?

How to enable font anti-aliasing in Wine?

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Dmitry Timoshkov" <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> writes:
> "Anssi Hannula" <anssi.hannula(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Better if Wine would use fontconfig's configuration as set by desktop
> > environment (~/.fonts.conf).
>
> That's not a very good idea, see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16745
> for details.

The specific implementation may not be a good idea, but the principle is
correct, we should get that info from fontconfig. Users shouldn't have
to configure anti-aliasing in two different places.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.org