Is it possible to have antialiased fonts on Win32?
Fonts on Windows are drawn by GTK+ using the native win32 calls; therefore, you need to have font smoothing enabled in Windows itself. Note that Windows will not smooth fonts within certain point sizes (6pt – 10pt for most fonts) unless you are using Windows XP. On versions other than WinXP, you can enable font smoothing on Windows by following these steps: • Right-click on the desktop, select Properties to get the Display Properties dialog. • Choose the Effects tab. • Look for an option that mentions font smoothing, or smooth edges and enable it. And on Windows XP: • Right-click on the desktop, select Properties to get the Display Properties dialog. • Choose the Appearance tab and click on the Effects button. • Enable “Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts”. • From the combo box, choose “Standard” to get the same font smoothing that older versions of Window use, or “ClearType” to get smoothing of all fonts. • There is a web page for configuring ClearType (IE only):
