VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue

re: VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue

JohnM — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:24:23 GMT

I found the old 8x12 size of the Raster Font was easy to read all day. It had serifs for comfort, the right height and width proportions, it was fat enough to not require bolding, but when bolded didn't blur. The san-serif fonts are thin and too crisp for these old eyes.

Please tell me where I can get a Truetype font of that 8x12 Raster?

Thanks!

re: VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue

Brittany Behrens [MSFT] — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:27:42 GMT

@GerhardP: Creating fonts is complex and expensive. Although there is a wide variety of fonts available for Windows and Visual Studio, we unfortunately haven't had the time or resources to create an exact TrueType replica of FixedSys. Regarding the bold attribute, what's not working?

Brittany Behrens | Program Manager | Visual Studio Platform - Editor

re: VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue

GerhardP — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:58:11 GMT

Why isn't there a good true type replacement for FixesSys. There is no font that comes close in readability. Or if the bold attribute would work at least!

Gerhard

re: VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue

GerhardP — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:57:38 GMT

Why isn't there a good true type replacement for FixesSys. There is no font that comes close in readability.

Gerhard

re: VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue

jamesbar2 — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:42:20 GMT

I just experienced this issue on my version of Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Web Developer Express.

This article's steps worked; however, the RTM has not been completely fixed. I used ProcMon to monitor what was failing, and the last things before crashing were fonts and a theme DLL that was created.

In the event it helps you find the bug I outputted my statement Application Error Event Log Below:

Faulting application name: devenv.exe, version: 10.0.30319.1, time stamp: 0x4ba1fab3

Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000

Exception code: 0xc000041d

Fault offset: 0x740d4cad

Faulting process id: 0x728

Faulting application start time: 0x01caebcd189dce0d

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

Faulting module path: unknown

Report Id: 3ff41d03-57cb-11df-a58a-002622036e0e

re: VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue

Visual Studio Blog — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:39:33 GMT

@Mark V:

You may be interested in some very recent improvements that the WPF text team has made since the VS 2010 RC. They've been doing a lot of work recently to achieve text rendering that's closer to the GDI rendering you see in VS 2008. WPF just blogged about this today: http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2010/03/05/additional-wpf-text-clarity-improvements.aspx. If you're still not satisfied, I'd encourage you to leave a comment for the WPF text team on their blog or e-mail them directly via their blog's contact link: http://blogs.msdn.com/text/contact.aspx.

- Brittany

re: VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue

Mark V — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:57:45 GMT

I really don't understand why something as simple as font rendering - which we've been doing quite successfully for DECADES now - has become so complex that it seems impossible to get clear text on the screen...

BlurType (tm) [misleadingly referred to as "ClearType" in marketing-weasel-speak] is HORRIBLE. Why on earth would ANYONE want bizarre color fringes on the text they look at all day? Yes, I've tried the BlurType color tuner - I can make the bizarre color fringes different, but no matter what they still appear. And they still look like absolute CRAP.

OK, I understand that VS2010 simply can't display FON fonts any more (though why such a rock-solid technology would be abandoned is completely beyond me), but can't someone build a set of TTF fonts for COURIER and the other popular FON fonts (and no, courier NEW doesn't cut it)?

In case anyone's wondering, the test case is actually quite simple: display a file in VC2008 with COURIER 10 and the same file in VC2010 with your proposed solution. Now, if even 1/3 of a pixel is different, you're not done yet!

re: VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue

Jim Adams — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:58:44 GMT

Folks,

I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2010 Beta2.

Getting the message - failed to start.

I do not know how to fix this problem.

Help???

Jim

re: VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue

Michael Goldshteyn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:08:15 GMT

Awesome job Erik! I jost hope this set of actions works for VS2010 final.

re: VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue

Erik Olofsson — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:10:45 GMT

I have found a workaround for actually using Raster fonts and the line spacing issue as well:

http://www.electronicdissonance.com/2010/01/raster-fonts-in-visual-studio-2010.html