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Re: Use ClearType for text?

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From: biondello
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 23:53
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I searched a bit on google and found that MS Sans Serif doesn't work with
ClearType however in vs.net it seems to work. So I tried Tahoma and it looks
really nice.


"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Borland does not natively support ClearType.  However, according to MSDN,
it
> should be just a matter of calling SystemParametersInfo() to enable it.
See
> the following URL for details:
>
>     ClearType Antialiasing
>     http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/gdi/fontext_0xgn.asp
>
>
> Gambit
>
> "biondello" <biondello@gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:3e6521aa$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> > I have enabled ClearType on my notebook and noticed that apps
> > compiled with vs.net render text using ClearType smoothing. BCB6
> > apps don't use ClearType although I use the same font as in vs.net.
> > Are there any extra steps required to make BCB render text using
> > ClearType?
>
>
>
>
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