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Hey La, Hey La, ClearType’s Back by aelij

One of the most referenced posts in this blog is the one dealing with the ClearType issues . Those of you who shared my pain will be glad to hear that Microsoft has delivered on its promise: WPF is getting a new text rendering stack in v4, which has the...
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Presenting PresentationHost by aelij

I always prefer simpler solutions. The solution I proposed on my previous post was not that simple, and was not complete. It may still be useful for other stuff, but for the purpose of preserving ClearType while using DWM, I just have to admit it has...
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Casper to the Rescue! by aelij

WPF has ClearType issues . Hopefully some of them will be solved in the upcoming .NET 4.0. Meanwhile, however, I have concocted a nifty solution to one of the scenarios – placing stuff on the Aero Glass DWM frame. When you extend the DWM frame in...
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Give me back my ClearType by aelij

WPF has a separate ClearType rendering system, which is better than GDI's (mostly because it also does y-direction antialiasing; read more here and in the WPF Text Blog .) However, there are some situations in which WPF cannot use ClearType, and has to...
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