Re: Ugly W32 display bug - fontified letters chopped on right

[Kim F. Storm]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
>> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:45:09 +0200
>> 
>> If I put this in the file xx.htm:
>> 
>> <TD  class=...>
>> TD class
>> 
>> the rightmost pixels of the first D are lost as can be seen by the tiny
>> screen-shot at the end of this message.  The second D is shown normally.
>
> I cannot reproduce this on my machine.  Does that Windows box have
> some non-default display features enabled, like ClearType?  If so,
> could you turn that off and try again?  (To turn off ClearType,
> right-click on the desktop, select Properties, then click the
> Appearance tab, click Effects, and under "Use the following method to
> smooth edges of screen fonts", make sure that the setting is NOT
> "Clear Type".)

I don't have access to that Windows PC right now.
I'll check when I get my hands on it again.

BTW, it doesn't happen when I try on the other Windows XP system that
I have at work.  So I guess it is not a big problem - and we can ignore
it for the 22 release.

>
>> Content-Type: image/gif; name=emacs-err.gif
>> Content-Disposition: inline; filename=emacs-err.gif
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> Yuck! GIF image...  Many Emacs users will be unable to see it, as GIF
> library is unavailable in many installations.

I'm not an expert XP user, so I used what the screen grabber suggested.
I didn't want to spend more time on this than necessary :-)

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk