Courier 10 Pitch is fuzzy compared to Courier New

[mavo...@gmail.com]

Hi everyone!

First of all, I think Trelby is a fabulous program.

I have no problems with it.

My problem arose when I set Trelby to use Courier 10 pitch instead of the default, which was Courier New on my computer running Windows XP SP3.

I installed Trelby, and started using it before I installed Courier 10 Pitch. Nothing was wrong with Courier New, but I figured, since the developers suggested Courier 10 pItch, that I would give it a try.

So, I downloaded Courier 10  pItch, installed it in my fonts folder, set Trelby to use it, and instantly, I found that Trelby displayed the font very differently from the way it had shown Courier New.

Suddenly, lowercase "e" was indiscernible from lowercase "c", and uppercase "H" characters seemed to lack the horizontal bar between the two uprights. Overall the font appeared to be "fuzzy" and "uneven". 

My computer lacks a "Print Screen" button, otherwise I would have included a screenshot. Sorry.

In any case, I was wondering if there was something I was missing about how to make Courier 10 pitch work on my system. Perhaps it is something to do with XP? Is this related to True Type fonts? I suppose the simplest solution is just to go back to Courier New, but I always like an explanation when something unexpected happens ;)

As a side note, when I export to PDF using Courier New and then using Courier 10 pitch, the two pdf's are indiscernible from each other.

Thanks to the community and the devs.

-Mark

[M Vorhoff]

I think I partially solved this. If I just turn off ClearType in Windows XP, then Courier 10 pitch is clear as day. 

[M Vorhoff]

Alternatively, if I simply increase the font size in Trelby to 12, then Courier 10 pitch is sharp as a knife, even with ClearType turned on. This is the best solution for me. Pretty simple, I guess, but I wasn't educated on fonts in Windows and about ClearType in particular. A side benefit of learning to use Trelby ;)

[lum...@gmail.com]

Most of these recent font issues with older versions of Windows (XP, Vista, Server 2003/8) stem from a known issue caused by font rendering issue introduced by a recent kernel security patch.  The patch had the unintended consequence of causing several True Type fonts to display w/o aliasing and kerning in certain common situations: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-windows_update/kb3013455-ms15-010-causes-font-corruption/8640d38d-19bd-46b6-9af0-6213c05107d3 .  The issue makes Chrome and other browsers display difficult to read pages like Google search & Facebook. On my older machines, some instances of notepad texts and emails formatted with Courier New are virtually unreadable.  Turning off True Type will *help* with the issue, but as a consequence some fonts look even worse.