[DustyLBottoms]

I think that 90% of the population thinks ClearType is much better that what comes standard.

And yes, Windows XP has Cleartype, "those idiots at Redmond" are even nice enough to give you a tuner webpage......so you can make it as blurry
as you wish.



http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...ner/Step1.aspx

[DustyLBottoms]

I think that 90% of the population thinks ClearType is much better that what comes standard.

And yes, Windows XP has Cleartype, "those idiots at Redmond" are even nice enough to give you a tuner webpage......so you can make it as blurry
as you wish.



http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...ner/Step1.aspx

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Gerard

I wonder, do notebooks use BlurType® these days?

I have ClearType active on all my LCD displays. I do agree with you though that sometimes ClearType is NASTY on some Windows Mobile devices. I don't have it activated on my Jasjar.

[ctitanic]

Originally Posted by clintonfitchdotcom

I have an x50v and have had this hack (via Tweaks2K2) for sometime now. I agree: It looks fantastic.

I'm not sure about the hack, but I know with Tweaks2K2 it puts a small applet in the startup directory and eats up abt 11K of memory....

Exactly and the reason why is because after a soft reset that key is reseted back to OFF. So I had to create a little exe to set it back to ON in the start up

[Darius Wey]

Originally Posted by Gerard

I'm not following... this is a hack to better enable global viewing of BlurType®?

As you can probably tell from the replies, some people like it, some people don't. It's only designed for single orientation use, but if you like your fonts "blurry" either way (like I do), hack away. FWIW, it looks great on my X50v and M600.

[Gerard]

Yes, I am aware that over the years many have expressed their enjoyment of this font re-rendering or whatever it is. (Please, no links to Microsoft's explanation - I read the thing 5 times and still couldn't make out why anyone would want it.) Just one of those weird things I suppose. Some people like caraway seeds too, something I've found bewildering for over 40 years. I like most other (non-meat) foods, so this one's a stumper, in landscape or portrait mode. (ewwww! caraway seeds in bed, that's so yucky!)

[ctitanic]

Could anyone tell me what color is the prettiest color?

[Darius Wey]

Originally Posted by ctitanic

Could anyone tell me what color is the prettiest color?

#000000. 8)

[ctitanic]

Originally Posted by Darius Wey

#000000. 8)

thanks god you did not say PINK :devilboy:

[HTK]

Originally Posted by Gerard

Sorry Jason, if my jibe offended you. It was meant as a joke. It's true that I have never comprehended why one might want to look at blurry-edged, rainbow-hued characters, rather than crisp black fonts. But you are welcome to do so. No one else could conceivably stop you, nor should they wish to, unless it's a shared device.

I wonder, do notebooks use BlurType® these days? Or is it strictly a WindowsMobile thing, up there with automated task management in terms of utility? (The other day I opened about 15 PIE windows from one page, thinking to read them all while on a bus ride. No such luck. Though my e800 had over 100MB of free RAM and over 70MB of that Program Memory, the bloody OS started shutting down the 'extra' windows. This was especially annoying because without a Wi-Fi connection PIE's 'History' menu was unable to find the pages. Idiotic 'features' like this from the geniuses at Redmond kinda piss me off... hence the mini-rant. BlurType® strikes me as being similarly counter-intuitive. I want to keep 15 windows open, but Microsoft knows I don't need that many. I want crisp fonts, just like I do in printed paper books, but Microsoft knows I'd probably like things fuzzy. The only real puzzle is why they let us shut off BlurType® at all.

Well uninformed man, not only the windows XP and windows mobile from the "people at redmond" feature cleartype as a subpixel font-rendering, but also all the recent linux distributions serve sub-pixel font rendering, and also de apple macintosh. So if you want to be anti-microsoft, its better for you to find something else.

If you're using the sub pixels and you have a tft screen perfectly calibrated and aligned and the right rgb mode selected, you'll have not blurred fonts, but the exact opposite, you have fonts with 3 times more horizontal resolution ( or vertical, depending on the screen pixel alignment ).

But hey, you're free to skip it! as you're free to live in a cave, eating cockroaches and fighting bears!

[Chucky]

I dont like Cleartype on QVGA screens (well at least those bigger than 3") but on VGA it turns text into printed text quality IMO.

I got a new mobile and was most disappointed it didn't have any Cleartype equivalent - will have to decompile the firmware and implement it myself