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changeset 77076:9bc027540c27
Describe problems on Windows with ClearType enabled.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:42:03 +0000 |
| parents | 68bbe818cb3f |
| children | 8fd6534a63dd |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Mon Apr 09 07:51:37 2007 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Mon Apr 09 08:42:03 2007 +0000 @@ -2102,6 +2102,18 @@ Windows 95 and Windows NT up to version 4.0 do not support help text for menus. Help text is only available in later versions of Windows. +When "ClearType" method is selected as the "method to smooth edges of +screen fonts" (in Display Properties, Appearance tab, under +"Effects"), there are various problems related to display of +characters: 2-pixel trace is left behind when moving overlays, bold +fonts can be hard to read, small portions of some characters could +appear chopped, etc. This happens because, under ClearType, +characters are drawn outside their advertised bounding box. Emacs 21 +disabled the use of ClearType, whereas Emacs 22 allows it and has some +code to enlarge the width of the bounding box. Apparently, this +display feature needs more changes to get it 100% right. A workaround +is to disable ClearType. + There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first frame. A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame