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Is there any support for better looking fonts? Rev renders fonts really poorly.

Nothing? Is there a plugin or anything? I really like Roboto fonts but they just look so bad using a label field.

LiveCode has always rendered fonts very well for me. The exception is if your system doesn't have the required font installed, in which case you get some iffy defaults, especially on Windows. You're using only installed fonts, right? Are they ttf?

Yes, they are installed and ttf. I am on a windows xp machine. Here is an example...



The top is what I made in gimp and imported as a graphic and the bottom is a label field. Both are 15px, Roboto font.

Is ClearType enabled?

http://paulstamatiou.com/xp-users-turn-on-cleartype
http://szafranek.net/works/articles/fon ... explained/

Yep, that did it... hahaha, boy do I feel embarrassed... Thanks for the help!

Hi,

For a fact, LiveCode renders fonts slightly differently from most software. This is particularly noticeable on Mac OS X.

There is a ClearType library in the private section of the Economy-x-Talk homepage. This library allows you to retrieve the ClearType settings from within LiveCode and you might also change these settings, even though it might be better to use the control panel for this.

Kind regards,

Mark