Saturday, November 15, 2008

How to make the font look better in Windows XP

GDi++

It contains gdi++.dll which is a replacement for the Windows default font rasteriser, which gives you a blurry better font smoothing capability, just like Mac OS X. It hacks one of the most important core dlls for graphics, gdi32.dll.

Before:

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After:

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Instruction:

  1. Click here to download the program.
  2. Extract the content from the zip file into a folder. (No installation is needed.)
  3. Double click the “gditray” to execute the application.
  4. You can turn it on or off by right click on the little icon in the taskbar.
  5. Create a shortcut from the “gditray” and put it on desktop for easy access.

Notes:

  • This program does not contains and it is free of virus/spyware/malware/trojan/keylogger/adware. (I’d been using it for years.)
  • This program is tested in Windows XP. (I haven’t try it on Windows Vista because I believe Windows Vista has it own font rendering process which is different from Windows XP.)
  • This program won’t affect your PC performance even if you have 256MB of RAM in your PC except it will take a few seconds to apply the process.
  • It may not render well with some Chinese fonts.

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