[Bug 10342] Implement ClearType also known as SubPixel Rendering

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10342


Piotr Gawrysiak <pgawrysiak at supermedia.pl> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Piotr Gawrysiak <pgawrysiak at supermedia.pl>  2007-11-16 17:36:33 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> You can get the CrossOver Office which has that feature enabled.
> 

This is not true - CrossOver does not implement subpixel renedring, only
grayscale. I asked their support about this and the answer was: "ClearType
support is not implemented. At this time we have no plans to work on it". This
is quite sad, because this technology (ok, perhaps this is too grand a name)
signifcantly influences font display on LCD screens.

Note also that patent issues are somewhat controversial, e.g. most Linux
distributions have no problems with shipping software able to do subpixel
hinting (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora etc. - this is standard option in Gnome fonts
configuration dialogs etc.). If you are really concerned, this should be
available as an option (e.g. even if this is a real problem -  and I doubt it -
it would be completely irrelevant in all European countries, where software
patents are "prohibited" by law). 

In effect e.g. in Ubuntu all applications (Firefox, Evolution, Nautilus etc.)
can use subpixel font rendering.  Notable exceptions are wine apps and
OpenOffice, which does not rely on fontconfig, but uses own, statically linked
version of freetype (and many people - myself included - hoped to use MS Word,
or even Windows version of OOo in wine, to get subpixel capable document editor
on Linux - but alas...).  


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