For example, Tahoma font is anti-aliased only if I set big font size, while small sizes are not processed, and stay sharp as bitmap fonts. And it irritates me a lot. Meanwhile any other Linux app with Tahoma font is rendered fine in all sizes, small and big.
Here is piece of document in small size opened in Mousepad
So the question is how can I make wine to apply anti-aliasing for all sizes of all fonts.
I installed all fonts with winetricks mscorefonts. It does not help.
I used prefix FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35" before launching wine app. It makes fonts just thicker but without anti-aliasing. So it does not help either.
Somewhere I saw a hint to use winetricks for adjusting font smoothing - canβt find it right now, but hereβs what I see after starting winetricks - choose wineprefix - change settings:
You may consider trying these settings (in an extra testing WINEPREFIXβ¦). (Yet this may do the same that you already tried with the registry settings. Did you check whether your monitor is RGB or BGR? For BGR the βOrientationβ should be 0 according the script offered on the original Ubuntu site following the link from archwiki.)
Another advise regarding (mostly complained - too small) menu font size was to change the dpi (default 96) in winecfg - Graphics to a higher value; some gave the advise to also experiment with the βEmulate Virtual Desktopβ setting:
The DPI value can also be set through regedit (LogPixels value), although I read that winecfg alters some more settings:
For me a higher dpi setting led to smeared font rendering (maybe, I should also try the (winetricks) font smoothing options); I returned to 96 dpi (as also with higher dpi my Appβs bitmap layer didnβt fit on my rather small screen) and then edited the Theme in winecfg - Desktop Integration:
It gave me the better legible menu font size I was after. Yet I could not find a a way tho change the font size in dialogue boxes presented by an application (I run Emu48 on wine - settings:)
β yet some quirks with the display of the application were fixed when I chose (in my case) Windows 7 as system version to be simulated specifically (winecfg):
Possibly your editor (AkelPad) behaves differently on 98/XP/7β¦ setting?