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I've been having problems with Visual Basic applications under Wine at
first under VNC, then more lately, also when running them against X
servers from the LTSP 4.2 project.<br>
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Here's some illustrations of how bad the font rendering was looking as
run against a VNC server and how much improvement there has recently
been.<br>
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<td valign="top">Version 0.9.16<br>
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<td valign="top">Version 0.9.21<br>
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<td valign="top"><img alt="Sample image of bad font rendering"
src="cid:part1.01060102.01060506@dcresearch.com" height="54"
width="141">The green text is partially scrambled.<br>
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<td valign="top"><img
alt="Again, Much better. (but bolder than before)"
src="cid:part2.09060207.09010009@dcresearch.com" height="67" width="90">
Here I'm seeing better font rendering, but it is bolder than before.
I'm not sure where to <br>
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<td valign="top"><img
alt="A VB Button with Font Rendering problem"
src="cid:part3.03050102.00050808@dcresearch.com" height="56" width="65">The
black text is partially scrambled.<br>
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<td valign="top"><img alt="Much better than before"
src="cid:part4.09000302.02030009@dcresearch.com" height="64" width="67"></td>
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alt="Font rendered better but placement may be off. Note that the green font seems bolder than it should be."
src="cid:part5.03090007.02080903@dcresearch.com" height="56" width="92">
Here the font is <br>
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Thanks for the improvements!<br>
-Joe Baker<br>
NEL Frequency Controls, Inc.<br>
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