Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:01:13 -0300, /MCBastos/:
Interviewed by CNN on 25/07/2011 22:28, Errol Smith told the world:
Disable cleartype in windows (set font smoothing to "standard" or off).
You probably have cleartype on with a setting not suitable for your
monitor (either your monitor is a CRT or it is an unusual LCD with non
standard colour order).
Good point. For unusual LCDs, Microsoft offers a ClearType tuning
utility that helps a lot. It's a downloadable applet for XP, built-in in
Windows 7, and I don't know which of those in Vista.
Also, if you use ClearType with the monitor in any resolution other than
the "native" one (usually the highest available on the Display applet)
results tend to be poor.
The real issue here is DirectWrite vs. GDI Clear Type (Windows XP
users are unaffected):
http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php/font-rendering-gdi-versus-directwrite
GDI rendering usually looks sharper at the expense of inaccurate
font metrics/kerning. It is generally an issue at smaller font
sizes. This has been changed/improved in later Gecko (6+) versions
by disabling DirectWrite at smaller font sizes for number of
standard font families. Steve Wendt has already given useful
related references in other reply (in m.d.a.seamonkey):
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2232137
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661471
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Stanimir
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