Anti aliased fonts in wine - minimum font size

[Aric Stewart]

Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm using Microsoft Office 2002 under wine.  According to the instructions here:
>>>
>>> http://www.wine-reviews.net/wine-reviews/tips-n-tricks/how-to-enable-font-anti-aliasing-in-wine.html
>>>
>>> ...I've enabled font anti-aliasing, and it does work for fonts above a
>>> particular point size.  However, it seems to turn itself off below a
>>> certain size.  How can I configure the minimum font size at which to
>>> allow anti-aliasing?
>> Try changing the dpi in winecfg.
> 
> Heh.  Well, that seems to work, in that 10pt fonts are now
> anti-aliased, except it happens because my 10pt fonts are much bigger
> than before :)  That's not quite what I was looking for.
> 
> It seems like the anti-alias feature is disabled based on the *pixel*
> size of the font?
> 
> Avery
> 
> 

I am not sure if this is the case here,  but often the fonts themselves 
actually set a minimum size for anti-aliasing.  The font designer 
decides at what point the anti-aliasing would degrade the usability of 
the glyphs and turns it off.  I know this is the case with many Asian 
fonts.

Have you tried with other fonts? Maybe you need to find a small 
character font designed for point sizes 10 and below.

-aric