[Hampton]

I was wondering If the True Type tweaking app from MS was still going on Win 7..?

[Mak213]

I dont know anything about a True Type Tweaking app. So i would have to say no.

[Hampton]

Uhm.. yes there is.. and it is in win 7..

Clear Type / True Type

Taken from Wiki

"By 1991 Microsoft added TrueType into the Windows 3.1 operating system. In partnership with their contractors, Monotype Corporation, Microsoft spent much effort creating a set of high quality TrueType fonts that were compatible with the core fonts being bundled with PostScript equipment at the time. This included the fonts that are standard with Windows to this day: Times New Roman (compatible with Times Roman), Arial (compatible with Helvetica) and Courier New (compatible with Courier). One should understand "compatible" to mean two things: first, that the fonts are similar to look at, and second, very importantly, the fonts have the same character widths so can be used to typeset the same documents without reflowing the text. (The disjunction of the names, particularly between Arial and Helvetica, led some to believe there was a general problem of having to determine an "equivalent" Apple or PostScript font whenever a particular Windows font was called for, or vice versa. However, while the character outlines themselves are different, the styles and weights have been made similar enough that the average user is unable to tell the fonts apart.)

Microsoft and Monotype technicians used TrueType's hinting technology to ensure that these fonts did not suffer from the problem of illegibility at low resolutions which had previously forced the use of bitmapped fonts for screen display. Subsequent advances in technology have introduced first anti-aliasing, which smooths the edges of fonts at the expense of a slight blurring, and more recently subpixel rendering (the Microsoft implementation goes by the name ClearType), which exploits the pixel structure of TFT LCD based displays to increase the apparent resolution of text. Microsoft has marketed these technologies particularly heavily, and they are now widely used on all platforms.

Microsoft also developed a "smart font" technology, named TrueType Open in 1994, later renamed to OpenType in 1996 when it merged support of the Adobe Type 1 glyph"

It's called "Adjust Clear Type text" in control panel under "Display" on the left

[Yamikotai]

Ah see if you'd said Clear Type I would've known what you meant

[Mak213]

Sorry but you did NOT ask if there was a way to tweak Clear Type. You asked if there was a APP for it.

Originally Posted by Hampton

I was wondering If the True Type tweaking app from MS was still going on Win 7..?

There isnt a app for it since that is BUILT IN and was in Vista as well. I know i have specifically told you about this before.

Samsung 42" Plasma

There is a difference between a application and a applet that is built in. When i read this you said application which would mean something like the PowerToy Application that was built specifically for XP. I am correct that there isnt one cause there is no application. There is a applet part of the Control Panel that allows for adjusting. There is a MAJOR difference between the 2.

[Hampton]

LOL, sorry.. I guess I meant applet. yes you showed me how to do it via the web browser version for vista..

[Mak213]

It is the same for Win7. Control Panel>ClearType. That is how i knew where it was. I havent used Vista since the Beta of Win7 was released but i knew that this wasnt changed.

[Hampton]

well it didn't show up in the search on 7 like it did in Vista..

[Mak213]

It just did it for me. You have to use ClearType not TrueType. TrueType is a font. For direct access, Control Panel>Appearance and Personalization>Display. On the left side you will see the link for Adjsut ClearType Settings.

[Hampton]

yes.. I know.. lol I said that exactly above.. but before I found it originaly.. (btw it was really easy to find) I tried the search help feild method that you showed me for vista, didn't find it tho.. maybe the True Type was the hanger..