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Re: Improved font rendering
Posted: April 7th, 2013, 3:27 pm
by jsmorley
Beta revision 1879 - April 7.
Added support for TransformationMatrix (all meters) and Angle (string meters).
Made some changes to how font "family" and "subfamily" names are handled, to be more consistent with GDI+.
Re: Improved font rendering
Posted: April 7th, 2013, 4:02 pm
by moshi
seems like fonts work now.
you are probably aware of it, ScaleMargins do not work:
Untitled-1.jpg
Re: Improved font rendering
Posted: April 7th, 2013, 4:39 pm
by poiru
moshi wrote:seems like fonts work now.
Yes, it should be a better now. There are still some issues left, but hopefully it will be fully sorted out next week.
Re: Improved font rendering
Posted: April 13th, 2013, 4:42 am
by Seahorse
Is there an ETA on a fix for fonts in @Resources\Fonts do not work as of this beta. please?
Re: Improved font rendering
Posted: April 13th, 2013, 4:47 am
by Brian
How about Sunday? Noon (EST)? Does that sound good?
-Brian
Re: Improved font rendering
Posted: April 13th, 2013, 11:08 am
by Seahorse
Thank you Sir - It impacts directly on the skins I am working on, hence I have not jumped to 3.0 and my interest not that i am back from holiday
Re: Improved font rendering
Posted: April 14th, 2013, 3:08 pm
by poiru
moshi wrote:you are probably aware of it, ScaleMargins do not work:
I've fixed this for the beta release later today. Thanks for reporting.
Re: Improved font rendering
Posted: April 14th, 2013, 3:28 pm
by jsmorley
April 14, 2013
Rainmeter 3.0 r1900
Changes in this release include:
- The ability to load fonts in D2D with the "LocalFont" option or (preferably) the @Resources\Fonts automatic loading has been implemented.
- Major improvements to the handling of font recognition and family/subfamily attributes on both installed and "local" fonts.
- Fix for ScaleMargins and other image handling issues.
The major outstanding "issue" with the D2D implementation is some remaining inconsistencies between GDI+ and D2D relating to "relative positioning" of string meters with some fonts.
Re: Improved font rendering
Posted: April 14th, 2013, 7:25 pm
by moshi
it appears to me it is not relative positioning, but rather font size.
in this shot you see the same skin, left is D2D, right is GDI+.
Untitled-2.jpg
it's pretty obvious at the
http://www.paris.fr line.
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FontSize=7
FontFace=Source Sans Pro
StringStyle=NORMAL
Antialias=1
and see the line-break!
maybe one uses pixels and the other one points as measurements?
Re: Improved font rendering
Posted: April 14th, 2013, 7:34 pm
by moshi
unrelated: the InputText plugin still uses a different font rendering than Rainmeter in general.
i think it uses the Windows standard font rendering, it never was GDI+ anyways.
in this shot you see D2D only. Windows 7.
Untitled-1.jpg
in the upper part you see a string meter that displays the input.
in the lower part you see how it looks while typing.
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FontFace=Source Sans Pro
FontSize=8
StringStyle=NORMAL
AntiAlias=1
difference in size is obvious.