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Living Room / Re: For DC Fans: Bring DC Forum to your Desktop for searching/browsing/etc.
« on: April 28, 2007, 01:29 PM »
Hmm... somehow this feels weird. Downloading an archive of a website to improve the searchability doesn't strike me as the 'correct' approach. Surely we need to invest our effort into better searchability on the web?

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General Software Discussion / Re: More offensive — Resource bloat or Feature bloat?
« on: April 28, 2007, 01:26 PM »
IMHO Opera gets an awful lot right...

 I have been using it for at least 5 years, and during that time the download size has remained consistantly small (< 5MB), but it has seen the addition of...

  • a mail client
  • iRC chat
  • a widget engine
  • simple notes
  • a basic bittorrent client
  • user javascript (like GreaseMonkey)
Not only has the feature list improved, but the speed of the basic function, web browser, has also increased significantly.

Ampa

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General Software Discussion / Re: What fonts do I actually need?
« on: April 28, 2007, 07:18 AM »
I think longrun is abbreviating 'original' to 'ori' as a mental note that the folder contains the original fonts installed by Windows.

'ori' is not denoting a particular filetype.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: PDF Readers / Viewers (Update +1 and Conclusion)
« on: April 28, 2007, 06:31 AM »
Aha!!

Major break through...

I found an option in Foxit Reader: Preferences > Page Display > Display texts optimized for LCD screen

Optimize for LCD.png
LCD optimization option

This makes a huge difference (though again I see no difference with or without the local copy of GDI+).

Foxit (LCD).png
Foxit with LCD optimization

Optimised for LCD the render quality is vastly improved - certainly middle of the field.

Foxit (LCD 400%).pngFoxit (Std 400%).png
@400% with LCD optimization@400% without LCD optimization

The option seems to enable XPs ClearType technology within Foxit, and is using coloured pixels to antialias the text, rather than greyscale. Interestingly none of the other viewers (Adobe included) use coloured pixels to antialias - I guess they just have a better greyscale algorithm.

Query: This raises an issue - how do the visual tests appear on CRT screens? It is quite possible that they appear quite differently to other users on other screen types?

Thoughts? Anyone?


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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quality Comparison: PDF Readers / Viewers (Update +1 and Conclusion)
« on: April 28, 2007, 06:03 AM »
Then I found the GDIplus Module on the Foxit website (Critical addons) and put it in the Foxit Reader folder. This dramatically improved the rendering quality...

I too found the 'critical addon' GDI+ module (and placed it in the Foxit install folder), but it seems to make no difference at all on the PDF that I am viewing.

Either I am doing something wrong, or the GDI+ module is hit and miss, or the crappy render quality I am seeing is with the GDI+ module.

I have attached the test PDF [286kb] to this post. If any one feels like testing it in Foxit with and without the GDI+ module I'd be interested in your finding.


I notice that I already have several versions of gdiplus.ddl residing on my disk...


system32   = v5.1.3102.2180
Foxit PDF  = v5.1.3102.1360
eXpert PDF = v6.0.3260.0


(So this is where I choose to delurk.)
-hjoerdis
Congratulations :) - now keep posting!

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