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How to disable Font Smoothing?
I don't know if "Font Smoothing" the correct term.I found the web asian characters in Opera less recognizable after upgrading from 9.64 to 10.53 on WinXP-SP3. It seems applying an anti-aliasing effect on the characters that blur the edge and make the characters hard to read in small font size or bold style. I noticed some font types are less effected by the smoothing and I am currently stuck to those. Would you please enlighten me on disabling the effect?
I know WinXP has its own settings on screen fonts edge smoothing. It hasn't been touched before or after my Opera upgrade. And the issue has not been found on IE6 (I don't need IE7/8 since Opera). So I believe its an Opera issue.
Yes, indeed this is an opera issue. Until 10.1x they used Qt as the underlying GUI toolkit. Then they switched. I'm not sure to what toolkit. But you can browse some other threads here, too, where this smoothing issue is discussed. In general, opera does not "listen" to the global settings on OS-level (I think all OS'es - I have verified this under Linux).
Regarding font-aliasing or no aliasing: It is a true matter of taste. There are advocates in both camps. I personally don't like anti-aliasing on TFT's because it destroys the needle sharp appearence (contrary to anti-aliasing which appears a bit blurry). And I know, in Linux, most fonts look horribly when anti-aliasing is switched off, because they are designed for use with anti-aliasing. For this reason I mostly use Windows fonts in my Linux system ;-), and ... I also refuse to use Opera beyond 10.11.
Regarding font-aliasing or no aliasing: It is a true matter of taste. There are advocates in both camps. I personally don't like anti-aliasing on TFT's because it destroys the needle sharp appearence (contrary to anti-aliasing which appears a bit blurry). And I know, in Linux, most fonts look horribly when anti-aliasing is switched off, because they are designed for use with anti-aliasing. For this reason I mostly use Windows fonts in my Linux system ;-), and ... I also refuse to use Opera beyond 10.11.
@doal: In windows, Opera relies 100% on "Windows font smoothing policy" (set up on "display settings"). If you want to force Opera to use an alternate antialiasing method, you need to use some kind of "external font render". Look into my signature links (GDI++) for more info, and I'm sure you'll be infinitely happy.
Greetings.
Greetings.
Originally posted by friguron:
@doal: In windows, Opera relies 100% on "Windows font smoothing policy" (set up on "display settings"). If you want to force Opera to use an alternate antialiasing method, you need to use some kind of "external font render". Look into my signature links (GDI++) for more info, and I'm sure you'll be infinitely happy.
Greetings.
It is not just the Windows settings that determine Opera's font rendering.
I also noticed a rendering regression with Opera versions beginning with 10.5x. My suspicion is the new VEGA based rendering...
Perhaps doal simply used the wrong term "font smoothing" and meant something else? But we can only speculate here unless doal tells us more about it and/or gives us some screenshots.
But one thing is clear to me:
Opera's font rendering is not just depending on the general Windows settings (like standard font smoothing, no smoothing, cleartype) but also different for different Opera versions (I thorougly checked this with different Opera versions, different computers, different LCD screens and different video cards, different Windows versions, too).
Regards, juuraa
@doal
Please, if you read this, look through my recent posts and examine my screenshots; maybe, they show the same problem with worsened readability that you are referring to...