Fuzzy Text??

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Bruce

I have an application originally written for Pocket PC 2002.

I have a customer who is running the program on a Dell Axim x50v
running Windows Mobile 2003 2E. They are complaining about some of the
text being fuzzy, particularly in a DataGrid I am using. They are
saying that no other application has this problem.

I ran the application in the 2003 2E emulator, even at QVGA, and I'm
not seeing it. I'm at a loss, because I'm only using the Tahoma font
at 8 and 9 points.

Anyone have an idea of what the problem may be?

--Bruce
 
I was just going to post a similar question...I'm using all Tahoma 8pt
font throughout my app and in the emulator or on a device it's all
squished and looks more like 6 or 7pt Tahoma instead...what's going
on???
 
Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition allows the user to change the font sizes
which will probably scale up/down what you have set in the designer, you can
access this setting through Start > Settings > System > Screen > Text Size

Peter
 
You might have to make your application DPI aware (aware of the high
reso), then the fonts will be rendered properly. Fuzzy fonts happen
when u're rendering to an offscreen buffer (which is 320x240) and the
buffer stretched when displayed on VGA devices. If your app is DPI
aware the font will be smoothed as you draw offscreen to larger buffer
e.g. (640x480).

- Victor K
 
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