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POWPF Blurry fonts issue- Solutions
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copied!<p>Problem is described and demonstrated on the following links:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.paulstovell.com/blog/wpf-why-is-my-text-so-blurry" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Paul Stovell WPF: Blurry Text Rendering </a></li> <li><a href="http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=445078" rel="nofollow noreferrer">www.gamedev.net forum</a></li> <li><a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=380919&wa=wsignin1.0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Microsoft Connect: WPF text renderer produces badly blurred text on small font sizes</a></li> </ul> <p>Explanation: <a href="http://windowsclient.net/wpf/white-papers/wpftextclarity.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Text Clarity in WPF</a>. This link has font comparison.</p> <p>I would like to collect all possible solutions for this problem. Microsoft Expression Blend uses WPF but fonts look readable. </p> <ul> <li>Dark background as in Microsoft Expression Blend</li> <li>Increasing the font size and changing the font (Calibri ... ) <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/190344/wpf-blurry-fonts-problem#190521">[link]</a></li> <li>Embed windows forms <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/190344/wpf-blurry-fonts-problem#190540">[link]</a></li> <li>Use GDI+ and/or Windows Forms TextRenderer class to render text to a bitmap, and then render that bitmap as a WPF control. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/190344/wpf-blurry-fonts-problem#283216">[link]</a></li> </ul> <p>Are there any more solutions?</p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/190344/wpf-blurry-fonts-problem-solutions/1494126#1494126"><strong>This is going to be fixed in VS2010 (and WPF4) beta 2</strong></a></p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/08/24/wpf-4-0-text-stack-improvements.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>WPF 4.0 Text Stack Improvements</strong></a></p> <p><strong>IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS BEEN FINALLY SOLVED !</strong> </p> <p><a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WPFAndTextBlurrinessNowWithCompleteClarity.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScottHanselman+%28Scott+Hanselman+-+ComputerZen.com%29&utm_content=Google+Reader" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen.com: WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity</strong></a><br> <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2010/03/05/additional-wpf-text-clarity-improvements.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>WPF Text Blog: Additional WPF Text Clarity Improvements</strong></a></p>

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