How to enable font anti-aliasing in Wine

Posted by twickline on Mar 25, 2009 4:29 PM EDT
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All computer displays show images in bitmap mode. What this means is that every image is really a bunch of tiny little squares that make up the image. What this essentially means is that computers can't display really smooth curves.

All computer displays show images in bitmap mode. What this means is that every image is really a bunch of tiny little squares that make up the image. What this essentially means is that computers can't display really smooth curves.



When anti-aliasing is working Winecfg should look like this, To enable smoothed fonts in Wine you will need to run regedit and change these settings. Don't worry their is a handy little script that will do everything for you as Wine has supported font smoothing, including subpixel since wine 1.1.12

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