It doesn't work well with Windows 8.1

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It doesn't work well with Windows 8.1 #109

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install mactype
2. Set the smoothing techniques
3. Look at the Start screen & the Win Store apps.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The font should be smooth. But it doesn't change at all.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
The 2013.1231.0 version, on Windows 8.1 x64 RTM

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kennytja...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2014 at 10:14

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

I have 2 machines with Windows 7 and 1 with 8.1, making the exactly same steps 
in the instalation on the 3 machines, seting up in Registry the change in the 2 
win 7 is incredible, I love it. But in the machine with win 8.1 didnt work at 
all, no change in the typography, not in the system, not in chrome, not in 
office...

Original comment by simbi...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2014 at 10:15

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

At Chrome it is working for me in Windows 8.1 Update 1. But in office it is not.

Original comment by faustopa...@gmail.com on 29 Apr 2014 at 12:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Its starting to fail all over the place now.  I really do love Mactype,  please 
consider adding some donation for you to spend more time on it, fix all this 
bugs and vastly improve it.  I and many others here would gladly donate.

Original comment by jonnyred...@gmail.com on 14 May 2014 at 4:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

I would happily donate, but I am not finding huge issues. Works in a lot of 
applications for me.

You do realise Mactype isn't designed to work with MUI right? MUI does a 
slightly better job of fonts than Desktop anyway.

Original comment by raz...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2014 at 10:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

modern ui apps and any application which uses directwrite (firefox by default, 
soon chrome by default, office, etc) aren't supposed to work with mactype

Original comment by panama.c...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2014 at 6:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Please please come back to updating Mactype.  So many users love this,  but its 
so out of date and in need of work.   Your last message was from 2013,  its a 
year later now.

Some, if not most of us would be willing to donate.

Kind regards
Jonny

Original comment by jonnyred...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2014 at 7:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

I'm afraid that making MacType work with the DirectWrite engine would be quite 
an endeavour. :-/ As said in comment 5, I think that's behind this issue. GDI 
is considered a legacy render by Microsoft today and they're moving away from 
it. Google Chrome is too, by the way. They're about to introduce DirectWrite 
there too.

Original comment by jonas.no...@gmail.com on 20 Aug 2014 at 8:49