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- From: Kai_Rohrbacher@p7.badendoor.fido.de (Kai Rohrbacher)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Summary: TrueTypeFont-Bug
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:35:04 -0600
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- As promised, here is a short summary towards the TTF-bug which I depicted here
- lately:
-
- Most of you meant, that the problem is caused by the font(s) itself,
- not meeting some TTF-specifications.
- However, it was in fact a memory problem caused by Windows' default
- settings! One of you (TNX Kevin!) had the answer:
-
- > In response to inquiry about having problems printing (and displaying)
- >TrueType fonts (especially complex characters), the solution may be to
- >change the OutlineThreshold= setting in Win.INI under Truetype settings
- >. All of this is explained better in the Windows Resource Kit manual,
- >but the default for this is 256, which means when a font passes 256
- >pels(pixels)-per-em, the font will no longer be a bitmap but an outline
- >font. Generally if you are low on memory, or if the font is
- >particularly complex, you lower the value. Note bitmap fonts are
- >faster, but take more memory. Tweaking with this value, may produce
- >better results both on the printer and on the screen. You might want
- >to try a value real low (say 50), see if it works, and move up from
- >there if it does.
-
- I haven't found the optimal value (yet), but 50 does work (in my
- case). However, this solution is no panacea: the machine becomes
- incredibly sloooow and the chars printed out are more "jagged" then
- before (especially visible with script like fonts in medium point
- sizes (~18pt)).
-
- Oh yes, a last note applies: The problem seems to be well known,
- quite a lot of people wrote me having the same problem. Nevertheless,
- Microsoft obviously didn't thought that it's necessary to document
- such things: neither in about 200K README-files nor ~1000 pages doc
- accompanying my Win 3.1, the above switch is documented!
-
- Shame on you, MicroSoft!
-
- TNX to everybody,
- Kai
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