Ubuntu – How to enable font anti-aliasing in Wine

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Fonts in some Wine applications (Word 2007 for example) are heavily aliased. How do I turn on anti aliasing for Wine applications?

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The easiest way is through winetricks

mkdir ~/bin
cd ~/bin
wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
chmod +x ./winetricks

winetricks fontsmooth-rgb

In newer version of winetricks the command to use is

winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb

There are other LCD pixel orders available. You can read about them and the rest of the impressive winetricks feature list on its WineHQ site.

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Ubuntu – Fonts look bad in Microsoft Office using Wine

This does have to do with the anti-aliasing in Windows. It expects you to have it on in the OS, so they don't bother re-creating anti-aliasing in the Office Suite. If you disabled the anti-aliasing in Windows, it would look the same.

If wine's own font smoothing does not work, then I don't think it will. Here's a test to make sure its just the display that's wrong. Print something...does it look okay?

Maybe post a complaint on WineHQ under the Microsoft Office information; they may be able to help you more (and possibly fix the problem in their next update).

I have seen this problem too (on my own computer, I have Office installed as well). I learned to ignore it. Also try zooming in on the text to make it look a little better. Setting the view to page-width may help a lot.

Ubuntu – Bad anti-aliasing in some applications

I fixed the font rendering on my system after reading this topic. Removing/renaming the home (profile) directory and starting over didn't make any difference.

You need to open the xfce4-settings editor and set the /Xft/Lcdfilter string in the xsettings channel from lcdnone to lcdlight. Other options to try are lcddefault and lcdlegacy as seen here under Rendering subtitle. Here is the CLI way:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/Lcdfilter -s lcdlight

or if the old value doesn't exist:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/Lcdfilter -n -t string -s lcdlight

After changing that option you need to restart the applications to see the differences. Here are my before and after screenshots (after is the like it was on 11.10). Btw, the screenshots are resized so you should right click on them and click View image or Open image in new tab to really see the differences.

Lcdfilter=lcdnone - ugly fonts Lcdfilter=lcdlight - pretty fonts like in 11.10

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