Disable Anti-aliased Menu & Dialogue Text

[dripley]

It would be a welcome enhancement to the viewer if there was a user preference available to turn OFF the anti-aliased text being used for the menus and some of the dialogue boxes. On my system, the anti-aliasing of the menu text simply causes the menus to look blurry...and causes the eyes to feel funny when they try to focus. You can easily see the difference between anti-aliased text and regular text on the preference dialogues. (Edit/Preferences). On the general tab, you can see anti-aliased text on the left menu. All of the options are regular text. On the color management tab, the options except for "Conversion Options" are anti aliased. The text describing the options is normal. It is easy to see that the anti-aliased text is needlessly more blurry looking. Thank you for your consideration.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I don't see the slightest problem even if I grab the dialogue box and zoom right in.

[Lzcat - Tracker Supp]

Since build 35 Viewer will use system setting for antialising fonts in user interface (for now some controls was forced to use antialias or ClearType if possible).

[dripley]

Thanks for the explanation. My Windows XP system currently has ClearType set to off, so I must be seeing the controls (such as the main menus) that are forced to use Clear Type. I agree that it makes sense for the program to follow the system setting. I wish that the controls that are currently being forced to use ClearType would also be programed to follow the system setting...so that those who like the effect may have it and those that don't like the effect may not have to use it. Thanks again...

[andreasm1982]

Nice to hear, that I'm not the only one who is confused of these unsharp menu items. They are really unnecessary and have more disadvantages than advantages, I think.