Fuzzy Fonts
Fuzzy Fonts
I just donwloaded a new version (old one was from Nov/03) and I like the nice clean font of the top-level menu. However, the sub-menus' fonts are fuzzy. Any idea how I could tweak that?
See http://www.danen.org/ for what I mean.
Thx
See http://www.danen.org/ for what I mean.
Thx
Gerry Danen
Hi John,John wrote:Hi Gerry -
I don't see any difference at all between the main and subs. They are both equally clear and sharp. The fact that you're using the same style for both would also seem to back that up. XP Pro/IE6.
Thanks for the quick reply.
It only seems to be a problem on my laptop XP PRO w/ IE6...
http://www.danen.org/fuzzyfonts.bmp has a cropped screenshot. Note that some of the divider lines are also missing.
That said, it works fine on two other Win2000/IE6 machines...
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Is that not the 'cleartype' settings in display properties?
Right click desktop
Click "Properties"
Click "Appearance" tab
Click "effects" button
In the "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" -
tick and set to "standard"
That works fine on my laptop with 15" screen but I have to set it the opposite way on my PC with 20" TFT.
Right click desktop
Click "Properties"
Click "Appearance" tab
Click "effects" button
In the "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" -
tick and set to "standard"
That works fine on my laptop with 15" screen but I have to set it the opposite way on my PC with 20" TFT.
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Arial vs Verdana fails too. But you may be right with the laptop. It's a widescreen unit (1920x1200 resolution). Perhaps the video driver is doing something when stretching the image. Curious though why the top level menu looks fine, but the subs don't.John wrote:Aw, shucks (and stuff!). Your screen shot certainly shows the problem, but I don't know what else to tell you. Given that all is well on other machines it seems to point the finger at the laptop.
Does a different font fail the same way?
I'll do some more tinkering. If I find the solution, I'll post it here.
Gerry Danen
It's tough if you can't replicate it in your own environment and 7 or 8 hours time difference does not help either...John wrote:Sorry I couldn't be more help, Gerry.
I was just going through the samples on your site, and noticed that the top level menus are fuzzy too. So are the tooltips. Could it be that the menu is ignoring the system settings for "clear text?" The download code on the samples is probably up to date, but are the samples themselves?
Grasping at straws...
Gerry Danen
Not that much. Note that I am in Phoenix!gdanen wrote:It's tough if you can't replicate it in your own environment and 7 or 8 hours time difference does not help either...
As expected, I'm not seeing that problem at all. Andy is up to his eyeballs, and even worse now that we're pounding on him for the new treemenu, so once in a while the samples lag a bit. However, he does his best to keep everything up to date.gdanen wrote:I was just going through the samples on your site, and noticed that the top level menus are fuzzy too. So are the tooltips. Could it be that the menu is ignoring the system settings for "clear text?" The download code on the samples is probably up to date, but are the samples themselves?
John
Ruth, that did the trick. It seems to be the opacity & shadow parameters that cause problems for me.Ruth wrote:One thing to note is that you do not have a shadow effect on the main menu, but you do on the submenus. I'd play with that effect and see if it's somehow doing something to the font look on your laptop.
Went with overfilter="Inset(duration=0.2)"; (I like inset better than fade) and now all is well.
Gerry Danen