Antialiasing

[Mikey]

How do I turn off antialiasing again (Win, 2k4)

[Douglas von Roeder]

I think it's called Clear Text - look in Displays, Appearance, Effects and look for the check box

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[Mikey]

This is a printer form, though. The text in the fields all show hard
edges. The labels, though, do not. I was also hoping to have this
not be a system-wide change.

[Douglas von Roeder]

What font are you using?

If you're printing with a TrueType font, it should render correctly.

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[Mikey]

So you're saying it's just going to be difficult to look at when I'm
designing the form? Man, I've been working with my other tools for
too many months...

So the only way to eliminate the antialiasing is to make it system-wide, right?

[Douglas von Roeder]

We're really scraping the bottom of the barrel when I'm answering questions on Windows…

:-)

The quality of the fonts on the form is controlled by the setting in Displays as well as by the settings in System Properties, Advanced, Performance Options, Visual Effects.

It would seem that you would have to have "Smooth edges of screen fonts" checked before the settings in Display would be enabled.

But that's just a visual. MS created TrueType back in the 90's to compete with…well, to make their fonts look better. AFAIK, there's no special setting for that. It should print fine with either a PostScript printer or any of the printers that use PCL (I think that's the page description language that HP has made ubiquitous).

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Douglas von Roeder
Voice Phone 949.910.4084

[Mikey]

No, Doug, we're scraping the bottom of the barrel when we start a PCL
fight to see who can write the more complicated formatting command...

[Douglas von Roeder]

You got me there…

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[m. alam]

Sorry Doug... have to nitpick with this statement here.. it was
actually Apple who created TrueType, cause they were tired of paying
Adobe licensing fees.. and Microsoft licensed TrueType from Apple..
cause Microsoft doesnt like paying ANYONE licensing fees.. and yes,
their font quality sucked, and their printing quality left a lot to be
desired, i.e. the lack of interesting fonts besides Courier and Arial
(a bastardized version of Helvetica)...

http://www.rjfernandez.com/GD/GD-TType.html

On 29 Nov, 20:08, "Douglas von Roeder" <dvonroe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But that's just a visual. MS created TrueType back in the 90's to compete
> with…well, to make their fonts look better. AFAIK, there's no special
> setting for that. It should print fine with either a PostScript printer or
> any of the printers that use PCL (I think that's the page description
> language that HP has made ubiquitous).
>
> --
> Douglas von Roeder
> Voice Phone 949.910.4084
>

[Douglas von Roeder]

Not a problem. I appreciate the clarification.

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Douglas von Roeder
Voice Phone 949.910.4084

[m. alam]

Back to the topic of "anti-aliasing" in 4D.. there is this option in
the Preferences, under the 'Compatibility' section that says "6.8
compatibility for text rendering".. it always mystified me, but I
believe it has something to do with this anti-aliasing issue.. you may
want to switch it on or off and see what happens.. hope this helps..

this is for v2004.. under v2003 it's under the 'Interface/Look'
section in the preferences.


PS: holy cow.. I just experiences the "darkened dialog box" problem..
never saw it before.. !!!

[Dean Tucker]

I am having some problems with Foundation 4.
I made a change using my Mac Book Pro laptop running 10.5x
My customer is deployed on a G4 running 10.4x running 2004.7 server.

If the method is called from the Pallet, it will hang the client and
peg the CPU.
If I call the method from special functions, then it will run fine.

I have rewritten all my methods in the call chain, and all the
dialogs that are used.

Next I tried to remove the components and re-install. But
apparently, Insider does not remove everything that needs to be
removed. I removed the Dialog Component and then tried to re-
install. But it will not install because there are parts of
component still installed. From the log, it would seem that the
uninstalled items are style sheets. Insider will not remove them and
Foundation will not allow me to get back into the structure and
design level to remove them. The structure just tells me that
Foundation will not run without the Dialog Component and then hangs.

So, how do I get a clean install for all the Foundation Components in
2004?

Did making a change in 10.5x for a 10.4 system cause the problem in
the first place?

Tools as usual, did not find any problems. Datacheck does not have
any problems with the data. And SanityCheck did not have any fatal
errors.

Side Note:
And finally, I do not understand the Table error message and the
directions do not help me. I have removed and re-installed several
of the other Foundation Components. So they were installed, then
removed and then installed again. The messages says "...copy table
or link to another table, the component does not have any fields."
This component has already been installed so I would think that there
is already a table for it to link to. But given that is not the
case, can I just pick any table and link it? Do I need to create a
general table and link all the components that require a table to
it? Does each component need its own table?

Several components do require tables and fields. Those are not a
problem, the tables are there, and the links happen with no problem.

thanks,
deano