>The fonts on my laption, VISTA, always look great, but compiled applications running on many other PCs, XP, often look terrible. I have copied fronts back and forth with no joy. Any hints. I'm using ARIAL as std.
One thing to check in XP is whether ClearType is being used:
Display Properties...Appearance...Effects...Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts:
Choices are Standard or ClearType. Whatever the current setting is, try the other one.
Be advised that if the screen is an LCD panel running at less than native resolution, and/or the user is using Large (i.e. 120 dpi font size) or a Custom font size (other than the standard 96dpi), fonts look fuzzy/muddy on XP. Vista+ are better at handling these conditions.
Regards. Al
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