You can tune a font but you can’t tuna fish...

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Travis — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:01:42 GMT

Is there anything that can be done (currently and/or theoretically) for rotating a display into portrait mode? I would prefer to view, for example, source code in portrait mode on an auxillary monitor, but I believe that kills the benefits of Clear Type.

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Trangalang — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:30:34 GMT

You can tune a font but you can’t tuna fish...

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alex — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:53:15 GMT

I see vertical strips, and I'm DEFINITELY running at native resolution.

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Stefan Constantinescu — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:45:28 GMT

Have to thank you for this little app. It makes reading on my CRT a more enjoyable experiance. When I used to have to do a research paper, and I knew I would be in front of a monitor for more than 12 hourse I would use my laptop. Now no more need!

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James Kreines — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:24:31 GMT

Can you recommend any way of getting ClearType to work with a portrait oriented display?

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Brant Gurganus — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:41:23 GMT

To more acurately use that image as a test. View it in Paint. If you view it in your browser, it may be scaled so that the logical DPI is 96dpi but the physical DPI can be something else. My screen is 134dpi which is set in the Display control panel, and I have the UseHR registry setting set for Internet Explorer which makes the logical DPI 96dpi so that DPI-unaware sites appear properly. Therefore, the image has the banding in Internet Explorer, but it does not have the banding in Paint.

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Larry Osterman [MSFT] — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:33:56 GMT

Hey Greg! Good seeing you today :)

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Jonathan — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:07:11 GMT

And of course, the display doesn't know which angle you look at it, or whether there's daylight coming from the window just by it, or wether it's reflecting some light from elsewhere, etc...

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fbcontrb — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:36:51 GMT

Waszszaf: You should see alternating lines, but within every fourth or fifth vertical line there would be bands disrupting the "smooth even tone" of the image. If you have an LCD display, try changing the resolution of the display and looking at the image.

Charles: As I mentioned in the post, hopefully as new EDID data becomes available to applications we cause use data from the display--to date the data has been quite poor. To make things even more interesting, if you have a laptop display, and you change the viewing angle of the display, the gamma response changes. As you rotate the display along the hinge axis towards you the text gets lighter and as you rotate away the text gets heavier.

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Charles Seeburg — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:37:53 GMT

Why you don’t just ask the display what its gamma characteristics are?