Re: screen font problem in Windows 2000

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carol,

Beginning with Windows 2000 and continuing forward with Windows XP,
display of all fonts, including Type 1, TrueType, and OpenType, is
fully controlled by the operating system, not by any Adobe component
such as ATM. There is a system level control to enable to disable
"anti-aliasing" of fonts. As noted by Val yesterday in a followup
to his original posting, this feature is controlled via the 
"Display Properties" as follows:

        Right click on any clear section of your desktop to get the 
        "Display Properties".

        Select the "Effects" tab.

        The relevant option is "Smooth edges of screen fonts."

If this option is checked, anti-aliasing of all fonts is enabled.
If not checked, no anti-aliasing is enabled. How well anti-aliasing
works depends on several factors including (1) resolution of your
screen, (2) sharpness of your screen, (3) the particular parameters
used by the particular anti-aliasing algorithm, and (4) your own
personal taste and vision.

FrameMaker does not do anything different in terms of character display
than any other application (it doesn't have its own character display
components as does Illustrator, Acrobat, InDesign, and Photoshop). Text
formatted in, let's say 10 point Glurbish Modern should look the same
in terms of on-screen quality in FrameMaker as it does in Microsoft Word.
If that is not happening on your system, you might want to see if
FrameMaker is doing some type of font substitution for you (see if a
FrameMaker console window has come up with such information). If not,
I would (privately) be interested in seeing the screen shot samples
along with detailed particulars of the document and your actual 
configuration.

        - Dov


At 9/18/2002 08:07 AM, Carol Elkins wrote:
>Dov,
>
>I'm having the same problem that Val Swisher discovered when changing from Win98 to Win2K. I only notice the screen fonts problem in FrameMaker--other programs display fonts correctly. This seems to occur only with serif fonts, and yes I do have the fonts installed on my system. Let me know if you would like me to send you screen shots or setup information. I would like to resolve this because it is very difficult editing on-screen with these fuzzy fonts.
>
>Carol
>
>
>At 12:00 AM 9/18/2002 -0600, Dov wrote:
>>Do you actually have the Times Roman family installed on your Windows 2000
>>system or are they just resident on whatever printer you are outputting
>>to?
>>
>>At 9/17/2002 11:52 AM, Val Swisher wrote:
>>>I am finding that the documents that I previously opened using Frame 5.5.6 or Frame 6.0 on the Windows 98 machine look MUCH BETTER than they do under Windows 2000.


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