Add VRGB/VBGR render modes for subpixel aliasing as new FontOrientation to enable capabilities that are already in xrender.c:UploadGlyph and subsequently freetype.c:WineEngGetGlyphOutline

[Clemens Fruhwirth]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
> Clemens Fruhwirth <clemens at endorphin.org> writes:
>
>> Would it be ok to add some override to Software\\Wine\\Fonts*? I'm
>> using a rotated monitor and at least in Wine I would like to have
>> properly rendered fonts.
>
> The first step would be to investigate how Windows handles that case.

There are no vertical rendering modes for ClearType under Windows (7).
There are some interfaces to do vertical rendering with DirectWrite,
but there are no ways to enable it generally for the "whole"
interface. I googled that some time ago and all resources come to the
same conclusion, ClearType=disabled for rotated monitors.
http://typophile.com/node/35168

My proposal would extend Wine beyond the capabilities of Windows. I
assumed that with Windows 7 they'd fix this long outstanding missing
feature, but I was wrong obviously.
-- 
Fruhwirth Clemens http://clemens.endorphin.org