Fonts under FF vs Opera vs IE7

[Andre S. Veteran]

Hi, I've been to the Wine FAQ this afternoon with my favorite browser Opera, under Windows XP. And I had an unpleasant surprise I recall experiencing several times under Linux but never yet under Windows: fonts looking BAD:

(please view the images at 100% to see the jarring)

The same thing under firefox:

As usual when things don't render correctly under Opera, IE7 does it perfect:

page visited: http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index

Does the same thing happen to you?

[Andre S. Veteran]

Just tested this at home, with Vista, and fonts look nice with Opera. Is this a Windows XP problem?

[joker999]

WinXP firefox 3.0.1 (everything fresh install)

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

It's not using anything special for the fonts (Bitstream Vera Sans, then Verdana), only thing I can think of is that the font is too small to receive anti aliasing.

[Jimmie]

IE7 enables ClearType for content by default. To get the same rendering in other applications, it has to be enabled globally.

Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Effects

Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts:

ClearType

Also, the ClearType Tuner from MS:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloa...ppowertoys.mspx