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Text looks horrible Thread last updated on 2006-12-05 22:47:01

Posted by member 250843 on 2006-11-29 14:03:05

I just started using pepijnnuland's new Mire Litestep theme, and have changed it around a bit to suit my needs. One thing I did was to take the song title/time portion of some other theme and plug it into this one. I've done this before and it's worked out fine, but this time the text looks terrible. Here's a link to what I'm talking about:

http://waffleimages.inorpo.com/files/20/20f875bf75bb95c4228027c72840a469bd7cac53.png

The information is displayed with xLabel, and I've tried changing the smoothing and cleartype values, but it always looks the same. What's going on?

Posted by member 1 on 2006-11-29 14:12:41 link

Well your link doesn't work but I would guess you are trying to use a font that isn't installed on your machine.

Posted by member 250843 on 2006-11-29 14:19:20 link

I fixed the link. It is a font I have - in fact, it's the same font from the rest of the theme (AvantGarde). I suppose just saying "terrible" wasn't too descriptive - it looks more like a font without cleartype enabled: bluish edges.

Posted by member 1 on 2006-11-29 15:46:46 link

Link is still broken.

Posted by member 250843 on 2006-11-29 16:07:35 link

Ok, fuck waffleimages, let's try imageshack:

http://img418.imageshack.us/img418/8726/textjr8.png

Posted by member 5575 on 2006-11-30 00:20:15 link

That does look bad. I've seen rainlendar look like that when I've had some [apparently] poor choices in my system color palette. I'm not sure how the anti-aliasing colors are chosen though, so I can't really help much. If you modify your system (or theme) colors, does the text sometimes look much better?

Posted by member 250843 on 2006-12-01 14:40:16 link

I've tried changing the colors in the theme to the same as the taskbar (which looks fine), but no dice.

Posted by member 1 on 2006-12-01 16:50:44 link

try changing some of your system colors.

Posted by member 250843 on 2006-12-01 17:17:35 link

Do you mean in the appearance tab of the display control panel?

Posted by member 1 on 2006-12-01 17:54:16 link

Yup...there is a chance that your LS module is using windows api's to do the Anti-Aliasing. The API may pull from the display settings so it could be the cause. Does it have any Blue in it?

Posted by member 250843 on 2006-12-01 18:34:35 link

No. The only blue that's there is the blue color scheme of the Mire VS.

Posted by member 5575 on 2006-12-01 18:45:16 link

Are you using the latest versions of the xmodules, with the xpaintclass DLL? If not, perhaps the version of xlabel in that theme was messed up, at least where anti-aliasing was concerned.

Posted by member 250843 on 2006-12-01 18:48:23 link

Looks like 4.0.1, which seems to be the newest version out there.

Posted by member 32550 on 2006-12-02 02:42:06 link

If i remember correctly this "special effect" is caused by small fonts and enabled cleartype on some systems.
The solution should be to disable "ClearType" with
LabelFontCleartype FALSE
or if that won't work even disable "Smoothing"
LabelFontSmoothing FALSE

Posted by member 250843 on 2006-12-02 07:03:36 link

Read the first post. I already tried that.

Posted by member 250843 on 2006-12-05 21:28:03 link

Any other ideas? Please?

Posted by member 212670 on 2006-12-05 22:18:32 link

I think that's what they're talking about here.

Posted by member 250843 on 2006-12-05 22:47:01 link

Yeah. I think my problem is related to the fact that I copied the amp info from a theme that didn't use xPaintClass into one that does, since the other fonts in the theme look fine.