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Hi!

Using playonlinux with Arch Linux, Wine 1.5.7.
I unsuccessfully tried to enable subpixel rendering for Office 2010.

What I expected
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Fonts are rendered nicely, like in Windows with Clear Type or native Linux.

What happened
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There is grey-antialiasing but no subpixel rendering/hinting.

What I tried so far
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Install - Others - Antialiasing

And setting subpixel rendering fontsmoothing over registry

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="2"
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002

but it had no effect.

Any help welcome!

Anyone?

Tried to fix it with the help of pango on #playonlinux irc.
Then I made a bug report: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31275

Any help welcome!

Edited by kwinz

Kwinz, does it work for you at the end?

Edited by haizaar

Hi,

I see this topic is rather old.... but I'm still experiencing this problem today... I have also tried following the OPs stepsa but still font rendering is suboptimal.

Below a couple of screenshots comparison between Word in Wine (POL) and in Windows XP with cleartype enabled to show the difference, maybe it can be useful.

http://img.ctrlv.in/img/15/12/07/56654d985c1de.png

http://img.ctrlv.in/img/15/12/07/56654e29894f2.png

Wine version used in the prefix: 1.7.52

POL version: 4.2.9

Do you force antialiasing in your video driver, say Nvidia's?

I've already seen Wine display being antialiased, and antialiased antialiased fonts look a bit like that...

Thanks for you answer petch.. I think I see what you mean.

The only explicit anti-alias setting I enabled is in XFCE Appearance settings, but disabling that doesn't seem to change the way Wine behaves.

Lorenzo.